#cuniform — Public Fediverse posts
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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It [Shared]
In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia
#history #discovery #language #cuniform #Assyrian #discovery #translation #smithsonian #shared