Dark Age Observations

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• Hittite

  18 September 2007, by b m walker
  Hittite, one of the oldest known Indo-European languages is recorded early in the second millennium BCE and flourished until the extinction of the Hittite power in 1500 BCE.
  Hittite is first recorded in about 1900 BCE in central Asia Minor . It is preserved on clay tablets found at Hattusas (Boghazköy), the ancient capital of the Hittites.
  There are somewhat more than 25,000 tablets in this archive. Several languages are found on the tablets. That Hittite belongs to the Indo-European (...)
  
  

• The Vangiones

  21 August 2007, by b m walker
  A Germanic people forming part of the federation led by Ariovistus to invade the Sequanii
  The Vangiones formed part of the Suebic peoples who crossed the Rhine near Mainz early in the first century BCE.
  With the Triboci and the Nemetes they occupied the Rheinpfalz and the Alsatian plain. Lucan remarked on their loose trousers which reminded him of the Sarmatians and is a possible indicator that the Vangiones came from the eastern (Elbe valley) branch of the Suebi. The tribe was part of (...)