title: The Luwian Civilization: The Missing Link in the Aegean Bronze Age
author:  Eberhard Zangger 
description: 292 pp, color figures, pb, in English. Contents: 1. Prologue  2. A New Perspective of the Aegean Bronze Age  3. The Luwians  3.1 Who Are the Luwians?  3.2 Habitat and Natural Resources  3.3 Late Bronze Age Archaeological Sites in Western Asia Minor  3.4 Petty States in Western Asia Minor  3.5 Luwian Scripts  3.6 Linear A Script  3.7 The Phaistos Disc  3.8 The Missing Link  3.9 Why are the Luwians Missing?  4. Bronze Age  4.1 Late Bronze Age Shipwrecks  4.2 The Mycenaean Culture on the Greek Mainland 4.3 Minoan Crete  4.4 Hatti  the Hittite Empire  4.5 The New Kingdom in Egypt  4.6 Petty Kingdoms in Syria and Palestine  5. Troy  5.1 The History of Troy  5.2 The Investigation of Troy  5.3 The Lower Town  5.4 Hydro Engineering During the Bronze Age  5.5 Descriptions of Ancient Troy  6. The Sea Peoples  6.1 The Sea Peoples' Inscriptions and Excavation Results  6.2 Hypotheses Regarding the Sea Peoples Invasions  6.3 The Initial Sea Peoples Raids  6.4 The Trojan War as a Mycenaean Counterattack  6.5 Civil War on the Greek Mainland  7. Iron Age  7.1 Migrations at the Beginning of the Iron Age  7.2 Caria  7.3 Phrygia  7.4 Lydia  7.5 The Philistines in Canaan and Palestine  7.6 Phoenicians  7.7 The Etruscan Culture  8. Sources  8.1 The Homeric Epics  8.2 Non-Homeric Accounts of the Trojan War  8.3 Dio Chrysostom  8.4 Dictys Cretensis  8.5 Dares Phrygius  8.6 Quintus of Smyrna  8.7 Eusebius of Caesarea  8.8 John Malalas  8.9 Joseph of Exeter  8.10 Benot de Sainte-Maure  8.11 Guido de Columnis  9. Luwian Studies and its Goals  9.1 Closing the Research Gap  9.2 Proposed Methods  10. Epilogue  11. Appendices  Glossary  Sources  Bibliography  Picture credits
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  # **Chapter 39**
  
  ### **INDIA**  
   ** _Autumn, 533 a.d._**
  
  As the great vessel which Eon had used for his flagship sailed out of
  Chowpatty's harbor, Antonina and Ousanas remained on the stern of the ship.
  That position gave them the best possible view of the long, steep-sided
  promontory which overlooked the harbor. The fortress where Eon had met his end
  was atop that promontory. Malabar Hill, as the natives called it. And so was
  his tomb.
  
  Antonina had thought the Ethiopians would want to return Eon's body to Axum.
  But, leaving aside the practical difficulties of transporting a corpse across
  an ocean, the sarawit commanderswith Ousanas and Ezana agreeinghad decided
  it would be more fitting to bury him on Malabar Hill. So, like Alexander, Eon
  would be laid to rest in the land he had conquered rather than the land of his
  origins.
  
  Conquered, yes, not simply occupied. At a great ceremony three day