Cuneiform terracota tablets, ca. 1400 BC, Qatna, Syria. 63 cuneiform tablets were discovered in 2002
Cuneiform terracota tablets, ca. 1400 BC, Qatna, Syria. 63 cuneiform tablets were discovered in 2002, in a subterranean corridor. They were covered by the burned remains of several roofbeams. Maybe they were hidden during the Hittite invasion. The texts probably belong to the archive of King Idanda and contain both intelligence reports on the political situation in northern Syria, the Hittite threat and domestic and administrative texts. The texts are written in a mixture of the Akkadian and Hurrian languages hitherto unknown. - wikipedia.org -- source link
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