3,180-Year-Old Luwian Hieroglyphic Inscription Tells of Mysterious ‘Sea People’
Oct 12, 2017 by News Staff / Source
A team of researchers from Switzerland and the Netherlands has rediscovered and deciphered a 95-foot (29 m) long Luwian inscription found in the late 19th century on a limestone frieze in western Turkey.
Luwian hieroglyphic inscription by Kupanta-Kurunta, the Great King of Mira, composed at about 1180 BC. Image credit: Luwian Studies.
The 14-inch (35 cm) tall limestone frieze was originally found in 1878 in the village of Beyköy, about 21 miles (34 km) north of Afyonkarahisar in modern Turkey, and contained the longest known hieroglyphic inscription from the Bronze Age.
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