There It Is! Letter Recovered After 400 Years Contains Secret Language

Posted by on August 27th, 2010

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A letter found in the ruins of a collapsed Spanish colonial church in Peru could be the key to a heretofore undiscovered language. Awesome.

“Even though [the letter] doesn’t tell us a whole lot, it does tell us about a language that is very different from anything we’ve ever known—and it suggests that there may be a lot more out there,” said project leader Jeffrey Quilter, an archaeologist at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

The letter was preserved because the caved in structure protected the relatively unharmed library and offices of the facility.

[Nat Geo]

One Response to “There It Is! Letter Recovered After 400 Years Contains Secret Language”

  1. Josh Bulloc Says:

    Was it like the Cajun language?

    Josh Bulloc
    Kansas City, MO