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  2. Etruscan language - Wikipedia

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    A number of words and names for which Etruscan origin has been proposed survive in Latin. At least one Etruscan word has an apparent Semitic/Aramaic origin: talitha 'girl', that could have been transmitted by Phoenicians or by the Greeks (Greek: ταλιθα). The word pera 'house' is a false cognate to the Coptic per 'house'. [121]

  3. Etruscan origins - Wikipedia

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    The language, which has been partly deciphered, has variants and representatives in inscriptions on Lemnos, in the Aegean, but these may have been created by travellers or Etruscan colonists, during the period before Rome destroyed Etruscan political and military power.

  4. Etruscan history - Wikipedia

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    A map showing the extent of Etruria and the Etruscan civilization; the map includes the 12 cities of the Etruscan League and notable cities founded by the Etruscans. Etruscan history is the written record of Etruscan civilization compiled mainly by Greek and Roman authors. Apart from their inscriptions, from which information mainly of a ...

  5. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    The North Picene language of the Novilara Stele from c. 600 BC has not been deciphered. [35] The few brief inscriptions in Thracian dating from the 6th and 5th centuries BC have not been conclusively deciphered. [36] The earliest examples of the Central American Isthmian script date from c. 500 BC, but a proposed decipherment remains ...

  6. Pyrgi Tablets - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenician text has long been known to be in a Semitic, more specifically a Canaanite language (specifically North Canaanite; South Canaanite dialects include Hebrew, Moabite, and Edomite); hence there was no need for it to be "deciphered". And while most of the inscription can certainly reliably be read, certain passages are philologically ...

  7. Inscription on 2,600-year-old Turkish monument to mother of ...

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    Archaeologists have finally deciphered the meaning, long debated, of a text inscribed on an ancient Turkish monument.. The heavily damaged inscription, written in the Old Phrygian language, is ...

  8. Undeciphered writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Linear A and Cretan hieroglyphs are scripts from an unknown language, one possibility being a yet to be deciphered Minoan language. [1] Several words have been decoded from the scripts, but no definite conclusions on the meanings of the words have been made. Phaistos Disc, c. 2000 BC. Linear A, c. 1800 BC – 1450 BC, partially deciphered ...

  9. After 2,000 years of mystery, secrets of the Herculaneum ...

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    Now one has been deciphered by AI. Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79AD, the secret of a papyrus scroll kept their secrets hidden for centuries. Now one has been deciphered by AI.