I post this here under the category of Culture since it encompasses a variety of disciplines like language, history, archeology, science, technology et al , to not forget POLITICS.
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Is this Urartuan Cuneiform? The caption says Assyrian.
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65842000/jpg/_65842877_c0095621-cuneiform_inscription-spl.jpg
Urartian Cuneifom;
http://www.tourismturkeysite.com/img/regions-east/vanmus.gif
See the rest here. Note that the A word is not anywhere to find.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21427896
A new tool has been developed that can reconstruct long-dead languages.
Researchers have created software that can rebuild protolanguages - the ancient tongues from which our modern languages evolved.
To test the system, the team took 637 languages currently spoken in Asia and the Pacific and recreated the early language from which they descended.The work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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Another OH YEAH!! moment. Once again note that the A word is totally absent in the list of Indo-European languages..
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English language 'originated in Turkey'
Why are most European languages are known as Indo-European, not furko-European? Does the queen speak furkish? How about Shakespeare?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19368988