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Show Historical Records Lost. There are two great nations of antiquity an-tiquity whose inscriptions cannot yet be read the Etruscans and the Hit-tites. Hit-tites. The Etruscans occupied a part of Italy corresponding roughly to what Is now known as Tuscany. The Hit-tites Hit-tites at one time occupied a part of Palestine, and united with the Canaan-ltes Canaan-ltes to resist the invasion by the Israelites under Joshua. The Etruscan Etrus-can and Hittite inscriptions have thus far resisted the attemptB of scholars to decipher them, though no one knows when someone may stumble on a bilingual inscription which will serve as a key, just as the Rosetta stone, discovered dis-covered in Egypt in 1799, served as a key to the Egyptian hieroglyphics. In the new world, the so-called Maya inscriptions, in-scriptions, found on the ruins in Yucatan, Yuca-tan, are also a puzzle to scientists. Christian Herald. |