The language, so far as it has been deciphered, is "Asianic" and not Indo-European.
Had the boy deciphered and shared the lines of this far different Annie?
The monuments of many of his successors have been discovered by de Morgan and their inscriptions deciphered by v.
In 1876 Sayce pointed out the resemblance between certain Hittite signs and characters in the lately deciphered Cypriote syllabary, and suggested that the comparison might lead to a beginning of decipherment; but the hope has proved vain.
Furthermore, the Boghaz Keui tablets, though only partially deciphered as yet, go far to settle the question.
