The inscription beneath the goddess, written in the Phrygian language, has been a subject of scholarly debate since the monument was rediscovered in the 19th century, as noted by Archaeology Magazine.
"The Phrygian Mother is considered to be a powerful goddess ruling the natural world," he told Newsweek. Scholars had previously suggested they could also make out the word, though others had ...
Linguists further supported this theory, suggesting that the Armenian language shares ties with the Thraco-Phrygian subgroup of Indo-European languages. But the first whole-genome study is ...
The heavily damaged inscription, written in the Old Phrygian language, is carved into Arslan Kaya or “Lion Rock”, a 2,600-year-old monument in western Turkey that features sphinx figures and ...