[SunkenCiv]

At this excavation site at the foot of Ambarlikaya in Boğazköy-Hattusha in Turkey, a cuneiform tablet with a previously unknown Indo-European language was discovered.

Credit: Andreas Schachner / Deutsches Archäologisches Institut

[Red Badger]

Wouldn’t that be an OLD Indo-European language?...............

[Paladin2]

Interesting what one can find outback in the lower 40 acres.

[Oberon]

Yearly archaeological campaigns... continue to add to the cuneiform finds. Most of the texts are written in Hittite, the oldest attested Indo-European language and the dominant language at the site. Yet the excavations of this year yielded a surprise: Hidden in a cultic ritual text written in Hittite is a recitation in a hitherto unknown language...

Wait... I think I saw this movie...

[MinorityRepublican]

We’re not supposed to spell it Turkey anymore.

[pierrem15]

In the late Bronze Age collapse, Hattusa the capital was burned and the clay tablets in the archive were accidentally fired, making them durable.

The tablets also refer to a man the Hittites called Attarsiya who was a 15th–14th century BCE military leader of Ahhiya, which is taken by some to be the Hittite form of Atreus, king of the Achaeans.