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Old October 8th, 2017 #1
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Default 3,200-Year-Old Stone Inscription Tells of Trojan Prince, Sea People

3,200-Year-Old Stone Inscription Tells of Trojan Prince, Sea People

A 3,200-year-old stone slab with an inscription that tells of a Trojan prince and may refer to the mysterious Sea People has been deciphered, archaeologists announced today (Oct. 7).

The stone inscription, which was 95 feet (29 meters) long, describes the rise of a powerful kingdom called Mira, which launched a military campaign led by a prince named Muksus from Troy.

The inscription is written in an ancient language called Luwian that just a few scholars, no more than 20 by some estimates, can read today. Those scholars include Eberhard Zangger, a geoarchaeologist who is president of the Luwian Studies foundation, and Fred Woudhuizen, an independent scholar, who have now deciphered a copy of the inscription.

https://www.livescience.com/60629-an...ea-people.html
 
Old October 8th, 2017 #2
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3,200-Year-Old Stone Inscription Tells of Trojan Prince, Sea People

A 3,200-year-old stone slab with an inscription that tells of a Trojan prince and may refer to the mysterious Sea People has been deciphered, archaeologists announced today (Oct. 7).

The stone inscription, which was 95 feet (29 meters) long, describes the rise of a powerful kingdom called Mira, which launched a military campaign led by a prince named Muksus from Troy.

The inscription is written in an ancient language called Luwian that just a few scholars, no more than 20 by some estimates, can read today. Those scholars include Eberhard Zangger, a geoarchaeologist who is president of the Luwian Studies foundation, and Fred Woudhuizen, an independent scholar, who have now deciphered a copy of the inscription.

https://www.livescience.com/60629-an...ea-people.html
This excerpt is interesting, I think Zangger and Woudhuizen make a good argument to debunk the charge that it's forged:

"..Live Science talked to several scholars not affiliated with the research. Some of them expressed concern that the inscription is a modern-day forgery. They said that until records of the inscription are found that are not left behind by Mellaart, they can't be sure the inscription existed.
Zangger and Woudhuizen said that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for Mellaart or someone else to create such a forgery. The inscription is very lengthy, and Mellaart couldn't read, much less write Luwian, they said in their paper. They also noted that nobody had deciphered Luwian until the 1950s, which means that Perrot wouldn't have been able to forge it either. Zangger and Woudhuizen added that few scholars today are able to read Luwian, much less write a lengthy inscription. They said they also don't understand why Mellaart would have wanted to create a lengthy and complex forgery, but leave it largely unpublished.."
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I did a search on Wouldhuizen and came up with this.

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It will be shown that both the “Anatolian thesis” and the “central Mediterranean antithesis” are partly valid, and that some of the groups of the Sea Peoples originate from Anatolia and the Aegean, whereas others rather come from the central Mediterranean region. It further will be argued that the “prime mover”, which set the whole process leading to the upheavals of the Sea peoples into motion, is formed by the true mass migration of bearers of the central European Urnfield culture into the Italian peninsula c. 1200 BC.
http://www.woudhuizen.nl/fred/seapeoples.html

The PDF is downloadable.
 
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