hittite

Such a language was Hittite, and the Hittite language fits the model of Indo-European languages that had been constructed prior to its discovery.

It's a reference to the Trojan War from a Hittite source instead of a Greek one.

Neither did other Indo-European groups have writing, which is why Hittite is, as you say, the oldest attested Indo-European language.

The Hittite example is expanded on in Deutscher's excellent book Through the Language Glass, which is a really good read.

The oldest attestation of Indo-European language is now the long extinct language Hittite who used to live in Bronze Age Anatolian Steppe.

How about the oldest attestation of Indo-European language or the long extinct language Hittite who once lived in Bronze age Anatolian Steppe?

By that time the Hittite Empire was long gone, although the Neo-Hittites were around.

They brought their wives and children with them presumably to settle in new lands after the collapse of the Hittite New Kingdom.

Those Indic-speaking people were renowned as expert horse trainers, so the quotes from their language were encountered in Hittite documents about horse training.

I believe the article is saying that the Hittite branch split off early from the rest of the tree, and the Yamnaya are the ones that spread it around the world -- the Hittite branch ended up being a dead end.

But that exception applies equally to hittite kings and christian kings.

Like the dating of Rig Vedic Sanskrit to at least 3000 BCE, it's likely the Hittite language was evolving for hundreds of years before this.

How come that "the theory that made up an imaginary language" correctly predicted the existence of laryngeal phonemes in the Hittite language before the Hittite language was even known to exist?

The Hittite vassals also rebelled and are believed to be the core group of “Sea Peoples” who would terrorize the Mediterranean.

The name of the ultramarine blue pigment in all the ancient world was "cyano-" (cyanos in the nominative case in Ancient Greek; the name is already encountered in Hittite documents, a millennium before the Greek documents).

Grok 3 says "For instance, in the Poem of Pentaur, a propagandistic account of the Battle of Kadesh, Ramses II is depicted as a heroic figure restoring order against the chaotic Hittite forces.

Hittite people created an empire centred on Hattusa, and also around northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia [1].

Hittite people created an empire centred on Hattusa, and also around northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.

The most archaic attested Indo-European language is actually Hittite, possibly followed by Tocharian.