Archaeology & History
Lost language found on back of old letter
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T.K. RandallSeptember 1, 2010 ·
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A long lost language from Northern Peru has been found scrawled on the back of a 400-year-old letter.
Written by an unknown Spanish author the paper was recovered from the ruins of a colonial Spanish church in 2008 however it was only recently that scientists and linguists realised the importance of the words written on the back of it.
Notes on the back of a 400-year-old letter have revealed a previously unknown language once spoken by indigenous peoples of northern Peru, an archaeologist says. Penned by an unknown Spanish author and lost for four centuries, the battered piece of paper was pulled from the ruins of an ancient Spanish colonial church in 2008.
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National Geographic |
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