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This writing system arose in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. & disappeared early in the 1st millennium A.D. |
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DJ |
HISTORY |
2021-02-25 |
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Georg Grotefend bet some drinking companions that he could decipher this wedge-shaped system of writing, & did in 1802 |
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J |
19th CENTURY SCIENCE |
2011-03-22 |
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The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system |
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J |
A PIECE OF HISTORY |
2010-03-15 |
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We know about Hittite history from clay tablets, some written in hieroglyphics & some in this |
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DJ |
HISTORY |
1994-05-19 |
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About 3000 B.S. the Sumerians invented this writing system which used triangular marks |
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DJ |
HISTORY |
1993-06-29 |
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