The ancient tablet is inscribed with cuneiform text in both the Hittite and Hurrian languages. The Hittite inscription describes the outbreak of war, and the Hurrian inscription is a prayer for victory. Image credit: Kimiyoshi Matsumura, Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology
According to a translation by Mark Weeden, an associate professor of ancient Middle Eastern languages at University College London, the first six lines of cuneiform text on the tablet say, in the Hittite language, that “four cities, including the capital, Hattusa, are in disaster,” while the remaining 64 lines are a prayer in the Hurrian language asking for victory.
Archaeologists think the first Hittite kingdoms formed in central Anatolia — now Turkey — in about 2100 B.C. and the Hittites had become a major regional power by 1450 B.C. Hittites appear in the Hebrew Bible, and ancient Egyptian inscriptions record that the Hittite Empire fought them in 1274 B.C. at the Battle of Kadesh — an ancient city near modern-day Homs, Syria — in one of history’s earliest battles.
Thanks for posting. History BUMP!
Can we send them any money or arms? Little late but we’re a rich nation.
Was it running Windows 11?
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It was once thought that the Hittites were only mythical stories in the Bible. But again, the Bible was correct and the Hittites were a major civilization rivaling the Egyptians and Mesopotamians. They were just so utterly destroyed that no other records at all remained of them.
Take a picture of that with your phone?
And then ask all the various AI thingees for a translation?
Will it say, “Remember George Floyd - Black Lives Matter”? /LOL /s
The language is still poorly understood...
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Must have been written by their bureaucrats.
Wow, cool! Thanks for posting.
Haha, those stupid Hittites! Thinking they ruled the world or something when they were just a bunch of bumbling clodhoppers! *keeps making fun of the Hittites as illegal aliens continue to pour over the US southern border*
Only 3207 years left.
So I guess if the Hittites had not been using gas-powered lawn implements and eating beef they might still be around today???
/sarc
They sure don’t make tablets the way they used too.
I dunno...looks like the end says “ Holy Crap! We all gonna die.”
I used to enjoy reading about ancient history more when events occurred in B.C. and A.D.
The ancient tablet is inscribed with cuneiform text in both the Hittite and Hurrian languages. The Hittite inscription describes the outbreak of war, and the Hurrian inscription is a prayer for victory.
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Maybe the rock is really a potato and the text is just pocks from worms. Hey can’t anybody be a Hittite denier?
They used small print way back then like they do now in print magazines. Looks to be size 6, maybe even 4....
Is that the wallet size version?
Hurrian?Palm Pilot 0.3?