Show historical records lost thero there are two great nations of antiquity whose inscriptions cannot yet bo be read the etruscans Etrus cans and tho the hit aites tho the etruscans Etrus cans occupied a part ot of italy corresponding roughly to what la Is now known as tuscany the hit aites at one time occupied a part of palestine and united with the canaan ites itea to resist the In invasion vailon by the israelites under joshua the etruscan and inscriptions havo have thus far resisted the attempts of scholars to decipher them though no one knows known when someone may stumble on a bilingual inscription which will serve no as a key just as the rosetta stone di discovered S in egypt in 1799 served as a key to tho the egyptian hieroglyphics in the new world tho the so called maya alaya inscriptions script ions found on tho the ruins in yucatan are also a puzzle to scientists christian herald |