An ancient inscription decorated with lions and sphinxes is finally deciphered, and it involves the "mother of the gods."

Archaeologists have finally deciphered the meaning, long debated, of a text inscribed on an ancient Turkish monument. The heavily damaged inscription, written in the Old Phrygian language, is carved into Arslan Kaya or “Lion Rock”,

Roughly 2,600 years after somebody carved an inscription on a monument in what is now Turkey, an American researcher appears to have cracked the code. The engraving on the Arslan Kaya monument spells out the name of the goddess Materan,