Archaeologists found an entirely new language among the ruins of an ancient empire

During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered a new language written on a tablet detailing a foreign ritual.
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The Language of the Gods: Cuneiform Writing

An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...
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Archaeologists Discover Previously Unknown Language From Ancient Tablet

Archaeologists have recently discovered a previously unknown ancient language from an ancient tablet during excavations in Turkey. According to the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in Germany, ...
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'Ritual text' from lost Indo-European language discovered on ancient clay tablet in Turkey

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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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How the world's oldest known writing system was recovered after centuries

A recently discovered clay tablet telling part of the Epic of Gilgamesh in cuneiform. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP/Wikimedia Indeed, the Iraqi dictator was said to be so immersed in his ...