THE ANCIENT HITTITES.
COUSINS TO EUBOrEAN RACES. Striking confirmation of the theory that the ancient Hittltes were Indo-Europeans and blood cousins to the Teutons, Celts, and ancestors of the Greeks and Latins, Is made in the translation of some 200 of their laws dating from the 14th Century 8.C., by Dr. Geo. A. Barton, professor of Semltics at the University of Tennsylvania. The professor shows the extraordinary resemblance between language 3300 years ago and everyday English. The Hittite Empire had its seat at Boghas-Keul, near modern Armenia, in the 14th Century. B.C. It was there that WlEckler some years ago uncovered what was once the Hittite royal library and several hundreds of their clay tablets. "There was a remarkable resemblance, I found, in many of the words to ordinary words we have in English. Many of them seemed to have a common ancestry," says Dr. Barton.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 170, 19 July 1924, Page 19
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