[SunkenCiv]

Significant Bronze Age city discovered in Northern Iraq
Science Daily | 11/7/2016 | University of Tübingen
Posted on 11/07/2016 7:32:42 AM PST by JimSEA
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[Verginius Rufus]

Interesting. The Mitanni kingdom spoke the Hurrian language (unrelated to the Indo-European or Semitic language families, with no living relatives spoken today), but their kings had Old Indic names, suggesting that the rulers were Indo-Iranian in origin and had conquered a Hurrian-speaking country, but lost their own language. There is a Mitanni manual for horse-training which has some terms of Indo-European origin and the Mitanni kings worshipped some of the gods mentioned in the Rig Veda.