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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
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The Oldest Writing Systems in the World, Egyptian Comes Second
A hieroglyph stood for individual or combinations of consonants. 3. Akkadian Cuneiform - 2500 BCE Despite having two different languages, the Akkadians adopted the cuneiform writing system with their ...