Thursday, August 28 2025

Tag: Extinct languages

Kaminia Stele

2,600-Year-Old Kaminia Stele: The Linguistic Mystery of the Northern Aegean

In the summer of 1885, on the windswept island of Lemnos, archaeologists uncovered more than just a gravestone near the village of Kaminia. This local stone stele, dating back to the 6th century BC, carried a secret preserved in its inscriptions: a linguistic mystery that has puzzled scholars for over two millennia. The Kaminia Stele