Researcher Mehmet Kuşman has spent six decades studying Urartian inscriptions at Çavuştepe Fortress, despite academics questioning his claim to speak the long-vanished language

CAVUSTEPE, Turkiye: Mehmet Kusman did not spend very long at school, but he traced the ancient inscriptions chiselled into the black basalt rock and read: “Before me there was…

Mehmet Kusman did not spend very long at school, but he traced the ancient inscriptions chiselled into the black basalt rock and read: "Before me there was nothing. But by the…