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Linear Elamite: 4,800 years old, one of humanity's three oldest scripts. The other two were cracked in the 1800s. This one held until a team at ULiège broke it.
77 signs. Each one = one sound. No logograms. Pure phonetic writing, centuries before cuneiform got there.
The method: find royal names already known from cuneiform, then spot them in the unknown script. "We always proceed from the known toward the unknown."
The critical mass detail is wild: only 20 inscriptions existed for decades. Not enough to see the pattern. Then eight silver vessels surfaced in London in 2015. With 45 texts, the code cracked open.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/une-des-plus-anciennes-ecritures-de-l-humanite-vieille-de-pres-de-5000-ans-dechiffree-par-un-chercheur-de-l-universite-de-liege-11682894
#LinearElamite #archaeology #linguistics #writing #Elamite #ULiege #Belgium -
Linear Elamite: 4,800 years old, one of humanity's three oldest scripts. The other two were cracked in the 1800s. This one held until a team at ULiège broke it.
77 signs. Each one = one sound. No logograms. Pure phonetic writing, centuries before cuneiform got there.
The method: find royal names already known from cuneiform, then spot them in the unknown script. "We always proceed from the known toward the unknown."
The critical mass detail is wild: only 20 inscriptions existed for decades. Not enough to see the pattern. Then eight silver vessels surfaced in London in 2015. With 45 texts, the code cracked open.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/une-des-plus-anciennes-ecritures-de-l-humanite-vieille-de-pres-de-5000-ans-dechiffree-par-un-chercheur-de-l-universite-de-liege-11682894
#LinearElamite #archaeology #linguistics #writing #Elamite #ULiege #Belgium -
Linear Elamite: 4,800 years old, one of humanity's three oldest scripts. The other two were cracked in the 1800s. This one held until a team at ULiège broke it.
77 signs. Each one = one sound. No logograms. Pure phonetic writing, centuries before cuneiform got there.
The method: find royal names already known from cuneiform, then spot them in the unknown script. "We always proceed from the known toward the unknown."
The critical mass detail is wild: only 20 inscriptions existed for decades. Not enough to see the pattern. Then eight silver vessels surfaced in London in 2015. With 45 texts, the code cracked open.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/une-des-plus-anciennes-ecritures-de-l-humanite-vieille-de-pres-de-5000-ans-dechiffree-par-un-chercheur-de-l-universite-de-liege-11682894
#LinearElamite #archaeology #linguistics #writing #Elamite #ULiege #Belgium -
Linear Elamite: 4,800 years old, one of humanity's three oldest scripts. The other two were cracked in the 1800s. This one held until a team at ULiège broke it.
77 signs. Each one = one sound. No logograms. Pure phonetic writing, centuries before cuneiform got there.
The method: find royal names already known from cuneiform, then spot them in the unknown script. "We always proceed from the known toward the unknown."
The critical mass detail is wild: only 20 inscriptions existed for decades. Not enough to see the pattern. Then eight silver vessels surfaced in London in 2015. With 45 texts, the code cracked open.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/une-des-plus-anciennes-ecritures-de-l-humanite-vieille-de-pres-de-5000-ans-dechiffree-par-un-chercheur-de-l-universite-de-liege-11682894
#LinearElamite #archaeology #linguistics #writing #Elamite #ULiege #Belgium -
Linear Elamite: 4,800 years old, one of humanity's three oldest scripts. The other two were cracked in the 1800s. This one held until a team at ULiège broke it.
77 signs. Each one = one sound. No logograms. Pure phonetic writing, centuries before cuneiform got there.
The method: find royal names already known from cuneiform, then spot them in the unknown script. "We always proceed from the known toward the unknown."
The critical mass detail is wild: only 20 inscriptions existed for decades. Not enough to see the pattern. Then eight silver vessels surfaced in London in 2015. With 45 texts, the code cracked open.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/une-des-plus-anciennes-ecritures-de-l-humanite-vieille-de-pres-de-5000-ans-dechiffree-par-un-chercheur-de-l-universite-de-liege-11682894
#LinearElamite #archaeology #linguistics #writing #Elamite #ULiege #Belgium -
Un documentaire d'Arte retrace le déchiffrement de l'élamite linéaire, écriture employée vers la fin du IIIe millénaire avant J.-C. par la civilisation d'Elam, voisine de la Mésopotamie.
Documentaire disponible jusqu'au 25 novembre.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109776-000-A/a-la-recherche-de-l-ecriture-oubliee/
#écriture #Antiquité #Mésopotamie #Elam #Elamite #LinearElamite #Arte -
Un documentaire d'Arte retrace le déchiffrement de l'élamite linéaire, écriture employée vers la fin du IIIe millénaire avant J.-C. par la civilisation d'Elam, voisine de la Mésopotamie.
Documentaire disponible jusqu'au 25 novembre.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109776-000-A/a-la-recherche-de-l-ecriture-oubliee/
#écriture #Antiquité #Mésopotamie #Elam #Elamite #LinearElamite #Arte -
Un documentaire d'Arte retrace le déchiffrement de l'élamite linéaire, écriture employée vers la fin du IIIe millénaire avant J.-C. par la civilisation d'Elam, voisine de la Mésopotamie.
Documentaire disponible jusqu'au 25 novembre.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109776-000-A/a-la-recherche-de-l-ecriture-oubliee/
#écriture #Antiquité #Mésopotamie #Elam #Elamite #LinearElamite #Arte -
Un documentaire d'Arte retrace le déchiffrement de l'élamite linéaire, écriture employée vers la fin du IIIe millénaire avant J.-C. par la civilisation d'Elam, voisine de la Mésopotamie.
Documentaire disponible jusqu'au 25 novembre.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/109776-000-A/a-la-recherche-de-l-ecriture-oubliee/
#écriture #Antiquité #Mésopotamie #Elam #Elamite #LinearElamite #Arte -
”In July 2022, the French scholar François Desset and a team of co-authors published what they claimed was proof of a decipherment of Linear Elamite, a writing system used on the Iranian plateau around four thousand years ago. The paper appeared in the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, one of the leading Assyriology journals. Linear Elamite had eluded understanding ever since its discovery by archaeologists at the site of Susa in south-west Iran in 1903. It can’t match the significance of cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphs, but it is one of the oldest known forms of writing in the world.“
London Review of Books: Beyond Mesopotamia: Linear Elamite Deciphered
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
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#AncientWriting system #LinearElamite has been deciphered. that's really exciting - and I missed the memo when it happened in 2022
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia #science #archaeology #writing
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Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite — https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
#HackerNews #TomStevenson #LinearElamite #Deciphering #AncientScripts #Mesopotamia #Linguistics -
Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite — https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
#HackerNews #TomStevenson #LinearElamite #Deciphering #AncientScripts #Mesopotamia #Linguistics -
Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite — https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
#HackerNews #TomStevenson #LinearElamite #Deciphering #AncientScripts #Mesopotamia #Linguistics -
Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite — https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
#HackerNews #TomStevenson #LinearElamite #Deciphering #AncientScripts #Mesopotamia #Linguistics -
Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite — https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
#HackerNews #TomStevenson #LinearElamite #Deciphering #AncientScripts #Mesopotamia #Linguistics -
A #review of a couple of #books on the invention of the #alphabet in #scripts used for #writing:
"Alphabet Politics", The New York Review (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/01/19/alphabet-politics-the-greatest-invention-silvia-ferrara/ or https://archive.is/rfWaQ).
#History #Elamite #LinearElamite #Akkadian #Cuneiform #Script #Language #BookReview
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A #review of a couple of #books on the invention of the #alphabet in #scripts used for #writing:
"Alphabet Politics", The New York Review (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/01/19/alphabet-politics-the-greatest-invention-silvia-ferrara/ or https://archive.is/rfWaQ).
#History #Elamite #LinearElamite #Akkadian #Cuneiform #Script #Language #BookReview
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A #review of a couple of #books on the invention of the #alphabet in #scripts used for #writing:
"Alphabet Politics", The New York Review (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/01/19/alphabet-politics-the-greatest-invention-silvia-ferrara/ or https://archive.is/rfWaQ).
#History #Elamite #LinearElamite #Akkadian #Cuneiform #Script #Language #BookReview
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Reading about #Deciphering Mary #Stuart's lost letters from 1578-1584 in https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677 I wonder if much older #phonographic or #logographic writing systems, which are not #encrypted as such ... are always as "easy" to #decipher.
Had the #Elamicon deciphering tool in my bookmarks, still looks interesting for a #layperson:
https://center-for-decipherment.ch/tool/ -
Reading about #Deciphering Mary #Stuart's lost letters from 1578-1584 in https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677 I wonder if much older #phonographic or #logographic writing systems, which are not #encrypted as such ... are always as "easy" to #decipher.
Had the #Elamicon deciphering tool in my bookmarks, still looks interesting for a #layperson:
https://center-for-decipherment.ch/tool/ -
Reading about #Deciphering Mary #Stuart's lost letters from 1578-1584 in https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677 I wonder if much older #phonographic or #logographic writing systems, which are not #encrypted as such ... are always as "easy" to #decipher.
Had the #Elamicon deciphering tool in my bookmarks, still looks interesting for a #layperson:
https://center-for-decipherment.ch/tool/ -
Reading about #Deciphering Mary #Stuart's lost letters from 1578-1584 in https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677 I wonder if much older #phonographic or #logographic writing systems, which are not #encrypted as such ... are always as "easy" to #decipher.
Had the #Elamicon deciphering tool in my bookmarks, still looks interesting for a #layperson:
https://center-for-decipherment.ch/tool/ -
Reading about #Deciphering Mary #Stuart's lost letters from 1578-1584 in https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677 I wonder if much older #phonographic or #logographic writing systems, which are not #encrypted as such ... are always as "easy" to #decipher.
Had the #Elamicon deciphering tool in my bookmarks, still looks interesting for a #layperson:
https://center-for-decipherment.ch/tool/ -
"Linear Elamite, a writing system used in what is now Iran, may reveal the secrets of a little-known kingdom bordering Sumer" - #SmithsonianMagazine #LinearElamite #Elam #Linguistics #AncientHistory
