Unknown language found in ancient clay tablet

[questionmark]

Your homeland has been taken over by a foreign power. You are forced to move to a frontier town far from your home and work in the palace of the governor. Your name, perhaps the only link to your mother tongue, is recorded in the household accounts in the local script.

This could be the story of some of the women who were attached to the Ziyaret Tepe palace in the ancient Assyrian city of Tušhan over 2500 years ago. Their names were inscribed in cuneiform characters on the clay tablet shown above, which was baked in an accidental fire at the governor's palace around 700 BC.

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[libstaK]

Wow, that is an entertaining notion. These slaves have had their names travel the course of centuries in the most inadvertant way, I like it.

[hetrodoxly]

Unknown language, or the first dyslectic?

[Mentalcase]

Hopefully someone can create a new apocalypse date from this, time is running out!!!

[Big Bad Voodoo]

Typical names, borne by the women – the evidence for the lost language – include Ushimanay, Alagahnia, Irsakinna and Bisoonoomay.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-language-discovered-on-clay-tablets-found-amid-ruins-of-2800-year-old-middle-eastern-palace-7728894.html

[King Fluffs]

Nice.

[PeacefulAnarchy]

Hopefully someone can create a new apocalypse date from this, time is running out!!!

[Big Bad Voodoo]

This is big find. Thanks for sharing with us QM!

[Grandpa Greenman]

Great find... Thanks.

[esperwolf]

How delightful a new language. Put it right next to Extruscan which is also from 700BC.

[Xanthurion2]

neat

[dharma warrior]

The top line reads.....

Pulu si bagumba!

The list of names appears to be the passengers and crew of the S.S. Minnow.

The mystery deepens!

[csspwns]

kewl

[stevemagegod]

Its the language of Aliens

[Big Bad Voodoo]

I have interesting idea. Maybe it was Gutian language?

Gutians and their language are mystery of that area...

[Big Bad Voodoo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutian_people

[esperwolf]

That is an idea. Indeed very little is know about Gutian's so finding a record that they created would be a great discovery. Maybe it is a legend they told, or prof that they were not as barbaric as we originally thought.

[Big Bad Voodoo]

That is an idea. Indeed very little is know about Gutian's so finding a record that they created would be a great discovery. Maybe it is a legend they told, or prof that they were not as barbaric as we originally thought.

Im sure others were Barbarians to Gutians too. Yes Gutians are mystery.

[Galactic]

Nice find that’s one lovely ancient language not many has found due to destructions’ form past when many wars and the lost old knowledge usely been written in clay tablets to stone tablets that are place for an reason its like how man makes books and etc in past. Those languages is inter mix more then one language combine as for example like how English gathers words and changed it over the years.