How was cuneiform deciphered?
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
