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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 |
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"..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they also don't understand why Mellaart would have wanted to create a lengthy and complex forgery, but leave it largely unpublished.."
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This looks interesting
I did a search on Wouldhuizen and came up with this.
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The PDF is downloadable. |
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