/lit/ - Literature

>>18096869
>where modern Iran/ancient Mesopotamia was.
No, the earliest ones were centered around Ukraine. Kurgan Hypothesis has been validated by modern genetic evidence.

>>15419787
>>15419862
>>indo: from India
>> european: from Europa
>Unless you're ready to claim the indian sub-continent as part of Europe
Wrong.
Unless you're trying to say the Caucasus Mountains are in india and Indians actually come from them.

The Hittites, who established an extensive empire in the Middle East in the 2nd millennium BCE, are by far the best known members of the Anatolian group. The history of the Hittite civilization is known mostly from cuneiform texts found in the area of their kingdom, and from diplomatic and commercial correspondence found in various archives in Egypt and the Middle East. Despite the use of Hatti for their core territory, the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region (until the beginning of the 2nd millennium). The Hittite military made successful use of chariots. Although belonging to the Bronze Age, they were the forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 14th century, when letters to foreign rulers reveal the latter's demand for iron goods. The Hittite empire reached its height during the mid-14th century under Suppiluliuma I, when it encompassed an area that included most of Asia Minor as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. After 1180 BCE, amid the Bronze Age Collapse in the Levant associated with the sudden arrival of the Sea Peoples, the kingdom disintegrated into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some of which survived until as late as the 8th century BCE. The lands of the Anatolian peoples were successively invaded by a number of peoples and empires at high frequency: the Phrygians, Bithynians, the Medes, the Persians, the Greeks, the Galatian Celts, Romans and the Oghuz Turks. Many of these invaders settled in Anatolia, in some cases causing the extinction of the Anatolian languages. By the Middle Ages, all the Anatolian languages (and the cultures accompanying them) were extinct, although there may be lingering influences on the modern inhabitants of Anatolia, most notably Armenians.

>>14513540
>seethes and copes

You should tell that to the original white boys who appropriated an entire continent and invented all of Vedic culture.

proto indo europeans

What are some good books about the evolution and divergence of Indo-European culture? Specifically religion and myth.

By the way the Vedas were written by Caucasians

Thoughts on Proto-Indo-European religion?