Arzawa letters

…with that of the so-called Arzawa letters found in Tell el-Amarna in Egypt was soon recognized. This led the Berlin Assyriologist Hugo Winckler to undertake excavations in 1906 together with Theodore Makridi (Bey) of the Istanbul Museum. This first season yielded 2,500 fragments of tablets from the west side of…

…the language of the so-called Arzawa letters (e.g., Hittite), from the Amarna archive, had an apparent affinity with Indo-European.