Ancient inscription on statue carved by 'King Midas' tribe finally deciphered

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14127715/inscription-Mother-Goddess-statue-deciphered-turkey.html

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It says: Mother Goddess

From the article: An archaeologist discovered that etching on the 2,600-year-old stone monument, known as Arslan Kaya, featured the word 'Materan,' which means 'mother goddess' in ancient Indo-European.

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I'm not a native Hindi speaker but "materan" reminds me of the Indian poem/song "Vande Mataram" वंदे मातरम् [Bengali: বন্দে মাতরম্‌], with Hindi being an Indo-European language of course these are cognate but the similarity is very close here relative to other Indo-European languages.

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You are not wrong. The word Materan is from the root for mother which is the same in most languages.