recitation of a previously unknown extinct language. The language was hidden on a cuneiform tablet containing a ritual text written in Hittite. The Hittite ritual text refers to the lost tongue as the language of the land of Kalašma, an area that likely corresponds to where the towns of Bolu or Gerede in northern Turkey are located today.
Very very cool. They know it’s indo-european but not much else.
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.
Yeah sure fuck it. Let’s just read the ancient mystery tablet and see what happens. I’m willing to roll those dice right now.
It could be another complaint letter about copper
We can only hope
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Back when they didn’t have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers
Except that it was so long ago that they were still using Onetran.
“My cousin Nanni in Akkadia warned me not to buy copper from you, but I foolishly did not heed his warning…”
Be sure to drink your ovaltine
A crummy commercial?! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I had a thought of some archaeologists dusting off a first-gen ipad and peering at it through a microscope
The message was translated ‘what r u up to rn? I wanna double park on that booty baby’
Hey, who swapped my Fertility Ceremony tablet with my Funerary Rites tablet!?
tlhIngan Hol vIghaj
