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A 3,200-Year-Old Hittite Tablet Preserved a Language No One Knew Existe
A Hittite scribe working more than 3,000 years ago copied a ritual that included words from a language other than Hittite. Those few lines remain the only known written example of Kalašma, a language once spoken somewhere northwest of the Hittite capital. Before the tablet was identified, Kalašma was known only as the name of…
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Ancient Iberian and Basque May Share a Common Origin, New Linguistic Study Suggests
A new linguistic study is reopening one of Europe’s oldest scholarly debates: whether the ancient Iberian language and Basque (Euskara) share a common origin. By moving beyond surface-level similarities and into the internal structure of inscriptions, the research argues that the parallels between the two languages are systematic, deep, and difficult to dismiss as coincidence.…