The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in...
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understanding of Egyptian enough that by the 1850s it was possible to fully translate ancient Egyptian texts. Combined with the decipherment of cuneiform at approximately...
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Caylus vase (category Archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire)
the modern decipherment of cuneiform and the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts. Beyond its historical value as a dynastic artifact of Achaemenid...
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the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis proved to be a key turning-point in the decipherment of cuneiform, and the birth of Assyriology. The set of characters...
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cuneiformists in the world. The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform in 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published...
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facilitate decipherment, the Rosetta Stone being the classic example. Statistical techniques provide another pathway to decipherment, as does the analysis of modern...
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Assyriology (redirect from Modern discovery of Babylonia and Assyria)
of the subsequent decipherment of cuneiform was carried out using the multilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions, comparing the previously deciphered...
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Antoine-Jean Saint-Martin (category Members of the Société Asiatique)
known languages, as opposed to the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Rosetta Stone. All his decipherments were done by comparing the texts...
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Jean-François Champollion (category Knights of the Order of Saint Joseph)
made the first advances in decipherment before 1819. In 1822, Champollion published his first breakthrough in the decipherment of the Rosetta hieroglyphs...
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Georg Friedrich Grotefend (category Cuneiform)
toward the decipherment of cuneiform. Georg Friedrich Grotefend had a son, named Carl Ludwig Grotefend, who played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian...
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bilingual texts, and a large corpus. Proto-cuneiform was not accessible in any of these ways, but decipherment was possible because it was not a full writing...
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Achaemenid royal inscriptions (category Cuneiform)
vertically, and in the middle when arranged horizontally. The initial decipherment of cuneiform was based on the Achaemenid royal inscriptions from Persepolis...
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Behistun Inscription (redirect from Inscription of Behistun)
the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great (r. 522–486 BC). It was important to the decipherment of cuneiform, as it is...
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Persepolis (redirect from Tomb of Artaxerxes II)
rediscovery of cuneiform writing and, from detailed studies of the trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions found on the ruins, the initial decipherment of cuneiform...
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Elamite cuneiform was a logo-syllabic script used to write the Elamite language. The corpus of Elamite cuneiform consists of tablets and fragments. The...
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Carsten Niebuhr (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
accurate copies of the cuneiform inscriptions found at Persepolis, were to prove to be extremely important to the decipherment of cuneiform writing. Before...
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Edward Hincks (category Alumni of Trinity College Dublin)
Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform. He was one of the three men known as the "holy trinity of cuneiform", with Sir Henry Creswicke...
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Before the decipherment of cuneiform text, knowledge of the history of the ancient Mesopotamia was mostly dependent upon classical authorities and the...
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Henry Fox Talbot (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
the decipherment of cuneiform, and ancient history. Talbot was born in Melbury House in Dorset and was the only child of William Davenport Talbot, of Lacock...
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Sennacherib's Annals (category Collections of the Israel Museum)
the modern deciphering of cuneiform. The annals themselves are notable for describing Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem during the reign of king Hezekiah...
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Proto-Elamite script (section Decipherment attempts)
introduction of Elamite cuneiform. There are many similarities between the Proto-Elamite tablets and the contemporaneous proto-cuneiform tablets of the Uruk...
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Irving Finkel (category Alumni of the University of Birmingham)
of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions...
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Bedřich Hrozný (category Academic staff of the University of Vienna)
Indo-European language, which greatly facilitated the decipherment and interpretation of Hittite cuneiform texts. Building upon these insights, he continued...
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Persian, Elamite and Akkadian (Babylonian dialect); it allowed the decipherment of cuneiform script the Xanthos Obelisk (500 BCE; Xanthos, Turkey) in Ancient...
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Danish Arabia expedition (1761–1767) (category Exploration of West Asia)
to be a key turning point in the decipherment of cuneiform and the birth of Assyriology. He also visited the ruins of Babylon (making many important sketches)...
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Sumerian language (redirect from Classification of the Sumerian language)
Assyriologists began deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions and excavated tablets that had been left by its speakers. In spite of its extinction, Sumerian...
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including the decipherment of cuneiform. John George Taylor (British, fl. 1851–1861), early archaeologist who investigated antiquities of the Middle East...
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Bactria (category Historical regions of Afghanistan)
2140 BC, or some 1000 years before the Trojan War. Since the decipherment of cuneiform script in the 19th century, however, which enabled actual Assyrian...
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Assyrian eclipse (redirect from Eclipse of Bur Sagale)
first decipherment of cuneiform in the mid 19th century. The name Bur-Sagale (also rendered Bur-Saggile, Pur-Sagale or Par-Sagale) is the name of the limmu...
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decipherment of cuneiform in 1847, the French archaeologist Adrien Prévost de Longpérier in the same year confirmed that the name of the builder of Dur-Sharrukin...
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