Sputnik
The researchers say that the sudden, uncontrollable collapse of the dominant Bronze Age civilizations had long remained a mystery. They partly attributed it to powerful naval raids. But the identity and origin of the invaders which modern-day scholars call the 'Trojan Sea People' had puzzled them for centuries.
The scientists, who deciphered the inscription, say that it tells how a united fleet of kingdoms from western Asia Minor, also known as Anatolia and Asian Turkey, raided coastal cities on the eastern Mediterranean before and during the fall of the Bronze Age. They believe the script was commissioned in 1190 BC by Kupanta-Kurunta, the king of a late Bronze Age state known as Mira, and describes the rise of the powerful kingdom, which launched a military campaign led by a prince Muksus from Troy.
The 29-meter limestone slab, which is believed to be 3,200 years old, was found in 1878. It had the longest known hieroglyphic inscription from the Bronze Age in an ancient language called Luwian, that just no more than 20 scholars can read today.
https://sputniknews.com/science/201710111058124569-archeologists-decipher-ancient-stone/
