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Archaeologists just discovered a long-lost ancient language on cuneiform tablets in the ruins of the Hittite Empire

The Indo-European family of languages is the largest in the world, with over 150 languages and 3 billion speakers today. The ...
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The invention of cuneiform writing in Sumer Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop

1. The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing -- 2. Time and Place of the Invention -- 3. Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing -- 4. Received Ideas: The Origin of ...
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Spending my days with cuneiform writing: Reconstructing Sumerian grammar

When people living in southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq) toward the end of the 4th millennium BC created documents by inscribing cuneiform characters on clay tablets, they took the first step in ...
BBC

Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...
Salon

Hey, mister — wanna buy a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet for $10?

The history of writing is for sale on the Internet, and it’s cheap. The opening bid for a cuneiform cone that allegedly hails from 2000 B.C.E. starts at $1. A square tablet recording a sale that took ...
Discover Magazine

Decoding Cuneiform, One of the Earliest Forms of Writing

It’s not a language. It’s not an alphabet, either, exactly. But if you want to read the original Epic of Gilgamesh, or study the trade records of the ancient Sumerians, cuneiform is the only game in ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Study reveals earliest point in writing related to trading symbols

Co-authors Kathryn Kelley and Mattia Cartolano from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies studied seal imagery from before the invention of writing. A ...