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Event · Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives

Bedřich Hrozný announces that Hittite is Indo-European, making the Hittite side of the bilinguals readable

Hrozný's preliminary report in the Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft identified Hittite as Indo-European from forms such as watar, "water", and ezzateni, "you eat".

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Bedřich Hrozný announces that Hittite is Indo-European, making the Hittite side of the bilinguals readable [Event EVT0DEDSR2DE6AV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVT0DEDSR2DE6AV
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