*" On the Story of the Decipherment of Iberian Writing " by Jesús Rodríguez Ramos

* A Proposed Decipherment for Portions of Resbalon Stair, by Linda Schele and Peter Mathews ( September 1990 )

Decipherment is the analysis of documents written in ancient languages, where the language is unknown, or knowledge of the language has been lost.

Decipherment only made progress after World War I, with the discovery of Urartian-Assyrian bilingual inscriptions at Kelišin and Topzawä.

Decipherment work is ongoing.

After Ventris's death, Chadwick became the figurehead of the Linear B work, writing the accessible and popular book The Decipherment of Linear B in 1958 and revising Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1978.

* Gisaburo N. Kiyose, A Study of the Jurchen Language and Script: Reconstruction and Decipherment.

* Robert K. Englund, “ The State of Decipherment of Proto-Elamite ,” in: Stephen Houston, ed.

* John Chadwick-The Decipherment of Linear B.

An alphabetic cuneiform script with 30 signs including three which indicate the following vowel was invented in Ugarit before the 15th century BC.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

The spread of Akkadian stretched from Syria to Elam, and even the Elamite language was temporarily written in Mesopotamian cuneiform.

Of particular interest to curators was the eventual discovery of Ashurbanipal's great library of cuneiform tablets, which helped to make the Museum a focus for Assyrian studies.

In July, 2010, archaeologists reported that a fragmentary Akkadian cuneiform tablet was discovered at Tel Hazor, Israel, containing a ca.

He figures in the earliest extant cuneiform inscriptions throughout the region and was prominent from the third millennium down to Hellenistic times.

This was a strange hybrid creature that combined the head and torso of a man with the legs and tail of a lion ( the cuneiform sign ' UR ' simply refers to a large carnivore ; lions, wolves and dogs are all included ).

Early in Mesopotamia's history ( around the mid-4th millennium BC ) cuneiform script was invented.

The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, Iraq in about 2000 B. C.

The Vinča culture may have created the earliest system of writing, the Vinča signs, though it is almost universally accepted amongst archeologists that the Sumerian cuneiform script was the earliest true form of writing and the Vinča signs most likely represented pictograms and ideograms rather than a truly developed form of writing.

Their efforts concentrated on the site of the Temple of Nabu, the god of writing, where another cuneiform library was supposed to exist.

The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer ( in Mesopotamia, now Iraq ), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.

In ancient Iraq, about 2500 BC, punning was used by scribes to represent words in cuneiform.

Round-stylus and sharp-stylus writing was gradually replaced by writing using a wedge-shaped stylus ( hence the term cuneiform ), at first only for logograms, but evolved to include phonetic elements by the 29th century BC.

Also in that period, cuneiform writing became a general purpose writing system for logograms, syllables, and numbers, and this script was adapted to another Mesopotamian language, the East Semitic Akkadian ( Assyrian and Babylonian ) in around 2600 BC, and from there to others such as Elamite, Hattian, Hurrian and Hittite.

Archaeological evidence, such as a cuneiform inscription, indicates that the Urartian military fortress of Erebuni ( Էրեբունի ) was founded in 782 BC ( 29 years earlier than Rome ) by the orders of King Argishti I at the site of current-day Yerevan, to serve as a fort and citadel guarding against attacks from the north Caucasus.

* A damaged cuneiform astronomical diary tablet from Babylon ( Babylonian Chronicle 8: the Alexander Chronicle, BM 36304 ) mentions that " ki-di-nu was killed by the sword " on day 15 of probably the 5th month of that year, which has been dated as 14 August 330 BC, less than a year after Alexander the Great conquered Babylon.

It was previously believed that Cyrus had constructed this building, however due to the cuneiform script being used, the palace is believed to have been constructed by Darius.

The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system, which was originally used to write ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate.

The task of deciphering the Persian cuneiform texts was virtually accomplished.

The early logographic system of cuneiform script took many years to master.

In what became Mesopotamia, the early logographic system of cuneiform script took many years to master.

The different homophones ( or, more precisely, the different cuneiform signs that denote them ) are marked with different numbers by convention, "< sub > 2 </ sub >" and "< sub > 3 </ sub >" being often replaced by acute accent and grave accent diacritics respectively.

Meanwhile, many more cuneiform texts were coming to light from archaeological excavations, mostly in the Semitic Akkadian language, which were duly deciphered.

He left more than 90 inscriptions by using the Mesopotamian cuneiform scriptures in the Urartian language.

Ninus continued to be mentioned by European historians ( e. g. Alfred the Great ), even up until knowledge of cuneiform enabled a more precise reconstruction of Assyrian history in the 19th century.

Rawlinson began to study Persian inscriptions, more particularly those in the hitherto undeciphered cuneiform character.

The Nineveh library texts name more than a dozen liver-related terms and before cuneiform writing was even deciphered, hints of the existence of Babylonian hepatoscopy were recorded in the Bible.

In the three millennia the script spanned, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use also grew gradually smaller, from about 1, 000 distinct characters in the Early Bronze Age to about 400 distinct characters in Late Bronze Age ( Hittite cuneiform ).

The cuneiform writing system was in use for more than 35 centuries, through several stages of development, from the 34th century BC down to the 1st century AD.

In 1887, a local inhabitant who was delving into sebakh deposits accidentally discovered more than 300 cuneiform tablets that turned out to be Pharaonic records of correspondence.

Banks purchased many more cuneiform inscriptions from a dealer in Istanbul.

Old Persian cuneiform script is somewhat similar, with more than one inherent vowel, but is not an abugida because the non-inherent vowels are written with full letters, and are often redundantly written after an inherent vowel other than / a /.

The combination of the Dropsie / Annenberg library along with the University of Pennsylvania's resulted in a 350, 000-volume collection on Judaica, including more than 8, 000 rare books and an assortment of cuneiform tablets.

( Ri ( cuneiform ) is one of the more commonly used hieroglyphs, in many cases for the use of the " r " ).