cuneiform tablets

Can Cuneiform Be Read Today?

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Can Cuneiform Be Read Today? Ultimately, it was completely replaced by alphabetic writing (in the general sense) in the course of the Roman era, and there are no cuneiform systems in current use. It had to be deciphered as a completely unknown writing system in 19th-century Assyriology. Successful completion of its deciphering is dated to

What Came Before Cuneiform?

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What Came Before Cuneiform? The Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing and Egyptian hieroglyphs are generally considered the earliest true writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400–3100 BCE, with earliest coherent texts from about 2600 BCE. What was cuneiform replaced with? Ultimately, it was completely replaced by alphabetic writing (in the