The oldest attestation of Indo-European language is now the long extinct language Hittite who used to live in Bronze Age Anatolian Steppe. The language is attested in cuneiform, in records dating from the 17th to the 13th centuries BCE.
Hittite people created an empire centred on Hattusa, and also around northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.
> On a tangent, with the advent of AI and the final decades of our species, we should make more clay tablets to leave lying around
The irony is that even with AI we have yet to decode Indus script perhaps due to the lack of the equivalent of Rosetta Stone [1]. I think there's a Nobel prize waiting for those who can decipher the Indus script with AI or not [2].
Hittite people created an empire centred on Hattusa, and also around northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.
> On a tangent, with the advent of AI and the final decades of our species, we should make more clay tablets to leave lying around
The irony is that even with AI we have yet to decode Indus script perhaps due to the lack of the equivalent of Rosetta Stone [1]. I think there's a Nobel prize waiting for those who can decipher the Indus script with AI or not [2].
[1] Rosetta Stone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
[2] Indus script:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script