La lingua degli Ittiti
In 1916, the Czech scholar Bedřich Hrozný found the key to reading the clay tablets written in cuneiform characters discovered in the archaeological site of Hattuša, near the modern village of Boğazköy in Turkey. The interpretation of the Hittite cuneiform script marked the beginning of the Hittitology and gave rise to the knowledge of a hitherto unknown Indo-European population, which developed an original culture in the second millennium BC.