The Hethitologie-Portal Mainz is a research infrastrukture approved by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The objectives of HPM are:

1. to provide online access to sources and documents,
2. to prepare databanks for further use and guarantee their preservation,
3. to link sources and databanks productively with one another,
4. in order to foster cooperation,
5. develop new methods and possibilities of research,
6. promote the progress of knowledge
7. as well facilitate research by means of diminishing traditional routine procedures.

Image: Sphinx Gate in Hattusha (photograph A. Schachner)