Ehu išhamai amai ‘canta!’ Proposta di un metodo alternativo per la comunicazione della storia delle antiche civiltà

The importance of re-discovering history is a challenging commitment of our time. The dissemination of scientific discoveries to a large public is an even more urgent task these days, but the way how to achieve it is still problematic. The project eh ˘ u išh ˘ amai aims, therefore, to propose an innovative approach to disclose to young students of primary and secondary schools the civilization of the Hittites, an Indo-European population who lived in Anatolia (present central Turkish plateau) in the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE. The project has set a manyfold agenda for dissemination which is articulated in outcomes accessible to a large audience: theatre performances of Hittite myths accompanied by music, comics, cartoons, and workshops in schools.