Week 1Language
Eight Minds, One Lost Language
Caption
Nobody ever heard Proto-Indo-European, yet we reconstructed it. Eight people who made that possible:
1771 Anquetil-Duperron · 1786 William Jones · 1802 Grotefend · 1816 Bopp · 1835–47 Rawlinson · 1879 Saussure · 1915 Hrozný · 1956 Gimbutas.
Short takes
Two of the eight are Persian-world stories: Anquetil-Duperron brought the Avesta to Europe; Rawlinson copied the Behistun inscription, key to Old Persian cuneiform.
Who's missing? Name a scholar you'd add as the ninth.
