Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around 1,800 BC, the written form of the Canaanite language was emerging in what is now Israel, but words were few and far between ...

Two ancient clay tablets from Iraq contain details of a "lost" Canaanite language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The tablets were found in Iraq about 30 years ago. Scholars started studying them in 2016 and discovered they contain details in Akkadian of the "lost" Amorite language.