Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a 1,200-year-old jug fragment with the imprint of a small cat “making biscuits,” the oldest evidence of a kitty kneading on record. The team suspects the cat left its paw print when a potter left the freshly made jug to dry in the sun before …
‘Ritual text’ from lost Indo-European language discovered on ancient clay tablet in Turkey
Words from a “lost” language spoken more than 3,000 years ago have been discovered on an ancient clay tablet unearthed in Turkey. Archaeologists discovered the tablet earlier this year during excavations at Boğazköy-Hattuşa in north-central Turkey, the site of Hattusha, the Hittite capital from about 1600 B.C. until about 1200 …