Theo P.J. van den Hout (born October 12, 1953) is a Dutch–American historian and author. Van den Hout is currently the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen professor of Western Civilization and of Hittite and Anatolian Languages at the

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of the

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. He is the author of several books, including: ''A History of Hittite Literacy: Writing and Reading in Late Bronze Age Anatolia 1650–1200 BC'' (

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, 2020) and ''The Elements of Hittite'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011). In addition to this he is the editor of the

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of the University of Chicago. He has also appeared in several documentaries, including ''Lost Cities of the Ancients'' (2006). Van den Hout is a

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of the

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, a 2016 Fellow of the

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as well as a

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at the

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