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  2. Cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    Cuneiform [note 1] is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. [3] The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. [4] Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form their ...

  3. World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in ...

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    A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

  4. Assyriology - Wikipedia

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    Assyriology (from Greek Ἀσσυρίᾱ, Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, [1] [2] is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cuneiform writing.

  5. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.

  6. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    Writing has been invented independently multiple times in human history—first emerging between 3400 and 3200 BC during the Early Bronze Age, with cuneiform, a system invented in southern Mesopotamia to write the Sumerian language, considered to be the earliest true writing. Cuneiform was closely followed by Egyptian hieroglyphs.

  7. Decipherment of cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in modern times were copied from the Achaemenid royal inscriptions in the ruins of Persepolis , with the first complete and accurate copy being published in 1778 by Carsten Niebuhr .

  8. Akkadian language - Wikipedia

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    The latest known text in cuneiform Babylonian is an astronomical almanac dated to 79/80 AD. [30] However, the latest cuneiform texts are almost entirely written in Sumerian logograms. [31] Iamblichus, a 2nd century Syrian novelist, may have been one of the last known people to know Babylonian.

  9. List of cuneiform signs - Wikipedia

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    Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC.. Archaic versions of cuneiform writing, including the Ur III (and earlier, ED III cuneiform of literature such as the Barton Cylinder) are not included due to extreme complexity of arranging them consistently and unequivocally by the shape of their signs; [1] see Early Dynastic Cuneiform ...