A group of archaeologists and linguists deciphered a mysterious inscription on an ancient stone tablet that Turkish peasants found in the late 19th century. The text deals with the fall of the Hittite Empire and the first Trojan War.
When the stone tablet was dug out of the Earth, the French archaeologist Georges Perrot became interested in it.
A little later, this tablet suffered the fate of many other artifacts from the Middle East - the peasants smashed it into pieces and used it as a foundation for the construction of a mosque.
Note that the problem for scientists is that the text is written in a very rare Luwian language, which was spoken by part of the peoples of the Hittite kingdom, one of the superpowers that existed in southern Turkey and northern Mesopotamia in the second and first millennium BC.
According to Eberhard Zangger, a Swiss historian, several years ago he received a copy of this text from the son of one of the famous British archaeologists, James Melaart. When Melaart died in 2012, his son Alan found in his home a copy of the text from the stela in Beykei, which he passed on to Zangger and Fred Waudhuisen, who knew Luwian. In the text, scientists unexpectedly discovered that he was associated with the famous Troy.
According to scientists, this manuscript tells about the formation of a kingdom called Myra, which existed in western Turkey and fought with the Hittite kingdom.
The text also mentions the first Trojan War, as a result of which Troy became a vassal of Myra. This happened after the inhabitants of Troy rebelled against King Valmus and he turned to the ruler of Myra, Mashuitt for help.
Later, Troy participated in the campaigns of the armies of Mira against the Hittite kingdom and its vassals, which were led by Kupana-Kuruntas, the son of Mashuit. The combined forces of the two kingdoms defeated the army of one of the most powerful empires of the Bronze Age by 1190 BC. After that, the armies of Mira and Troy began to build a fleet and organize raids on various regions of modern Syria, Greece and Israel.
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