My father and my grandfather pitched their tents here before me. True believers for twelve centuries, they settled in this land and none of them had ever heard of an underground palace, nor did those who came before them. And behold! A Frankish man from a faraway land arrived, many days’ journey away, and he … Read more
Alongside Egyptian hieroglyphs, cuneiform script is among the oldest known scripts. It preceded the still unknown Phoenician, so-called “Linear B” script. Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered by Champollion, while the Phoenician script remains a mystery. Emerging from obscurity, cuneiform script became a subject of great interest worldwide in the 17th century, so it cannot be said … Read more
