The "Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten" is a joint research center at the LMU in Munich with a permanent visiting professorship. Each year an internationally renowned scholar of Ancient Studies is invited to hold a lecture series on significant interdisciplinary topics. Furthermore, the MZAW organizes congresses and conferences. The series presents these lectures to an audience interested in the history and culture of the ancient world.

Academics have long stopped speaking of peoples and their languages and cultures. Yet languages and cultures are still taken as evidence of quasi-ethnic community and identity. Nine papers by scholars in Egyptology, general linguists, archeology, German-Romance onomastics, Hittite studies, and Turkish studies reveal the incongruities between linguistic community, ethnicity, and culture.

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Peter-Arnold Mumm, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Deutschland.