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"And no, its not COBOL," jokes long-time Slashdot reader schwit1, sharing this report from ScienceAlert: A secret text has been discovered in Türkiye, scattered among tens of thousands of ancient clay tablets, which were written in the time of the Hittite Empire during the second millennium ...

The Telegraph's Poetry Book of the Month choices transport readers from post-apocalyptic Scotland to a medieval abbey

Czech scholar and archaeologist Bedrich Hrozny's pioneering work encompassed deciphering the Hittite language, unveiling its Indo-European roots, and...

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Poseidon, the Greek God of the Sea, was very influential in early Greek culture, but he was also human evidenced by his many lovers and children!

Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Robinson, Andrew at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0071357432 - ISBN 13:  9780071357432 - McGraw-Hill Education - 2002 - Hardcover

The Phaistos Disc is a famous archaeological mystery. No one knows its true purpose.

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The Throne Room at Knossos, the capital of the Minoan civilization. Credit: Rolf Dietrich Brecher/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-2.0The Minoans were a remarkable people, with a civilization far advanced for its time in many ways, with artwork and palaces replete with riches beyond description; now we can see that their diet was as rich and varied as their…

Mycenaean Pylos, the second largest center of the Mycenaean world after Mycenae