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Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite workers at an Egyptian turquoise mine in the Sinai region. The proto ...

The Ugarit excavations present important collections of cuneiform tablets. These tablets reveal the usage of cuneiform script to write various different languages including Sumerian, Acadian- ...

The cuneiform tablets that have been discovered over the years contain a wealth of information about ancient Iraq, from religious texts and myths to trade records and personal letters. Many of these ...

Neither hieroglyphics nor cuneiform were alphabets in the modern sense, relying instead on symbols and syllables. The first alphabet is thought to be the Proto-Sinaitic script, discovered in 1904 in ...

At the end of the 18th century, cuneiform script was a complete mystery to European historians. The first to report news of a strange writing carved in temples and clay tablets was the Venetian ...

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