Language is the Key

Language has always fascinated me. The way we communicate is bound to our culture and our culture to it. So when there are finds like that one in Turkey, it is truly an open door to the past. It seems they have unearthed a 3000 year old cuneiform tablet.

Researchers working at Ziyaret Tepe, believe that the language may once have been spoken by deportees originally from the Zagros Mountains, on the border of modern-day Iran and Iraq.  They suggest the unknown language could be Shubrian – the indigenous language spoken in the Tushan area before the Assyrians arrived, but never written down.

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