Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability. The ...

Linguists have developed methods for reconstructing the ancestral language, and refer to it using the label Proto-Indo-European or PIE ...

Fragment of a Hittite ritual text in cuneiform script found at the Hittite capital, Hatussa/Boğazköy (Archive of the Boğazköy Mission/Daniel Schwemer) Archaeological research in the Middle East is ...

The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths, and summoning rituals, using a language that researchers were ...

Researchers are still studying the ancient text of an unknown language, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilization used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This is a review article on Alwin Kloekhorst, Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological ...

A NEWLY discovered clay tablet from 3,000 years ago has revealed a lost language that includes a ritual text from one of the most powerful ancient empires. It was excavated from Boğazköy-Hattuşa in ...

Students in Davidson College’s course in “Beginning Hittite” are learning an ancient language while alternately bending over computer keyboards and clay tablets. Cuneiform, a system of writing that ...