Episode 12: Early Greek, Hittite and the Trojan War (Extended Version)
The History of English Podcast
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The History of the Hittites
In the mid-1800s, ruins of a large ancient city were discovered in central Anatolia. The city contained walls, monuments, and reliefs with hieroglyphic inscriptions. But no one knew what the city was or what language the inscriptions were written in. In the late 1800s, an Oxford professor claimed to have found a connection between all of these monuments. He concluded that all of the inscriptions belonged to the Hittites.
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