alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoArchaeologists discover previously unknown language from ancient tabletwww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1301arrow-down12cross-posted to: linguistics@lemmy.mlworldnews@lemmit.online
arrow-up1299arrow-down1external-linkArchaeologists discover previously unknown language from ancient tabletwww.newsweek.comalphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: linguistics@lemmy.mlworldnews@lemmit.online
minus-squareDarienGS@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·11 months agoI was wondering why the researchers hadn’t released any pictures of this newly discovered language, but on careful re-reading I realise it was transcribed in cunieform… so to me it would be totally indistinguishable from any other Hittite tablet.
I was wondering why the researchers hadn’t released any pictures of this newly discovered language, but on careful re-reading I realise it was transcribed in cunieform… so to me it would be totally indistinguishable from any other Hittite tablet.