The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in...

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...

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...

the modern decipherment of cuneiform and the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts. Beyond its historical value as a dynastic artifact of Achaemenid...

facilitate decipherment, the Rosetta Stone being the classic example. Statistical techniques provide another pathway to decipherment, as does the analysis of modern...

cuneiformists in the world. The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform in 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published...

of the subsequent decipherment of cuneiform was carried out using the multilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions, comparing the previously deciphered...

known languages, as opposed to the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Rosetta Stone. All his decipherments were done by comparing the texts...

made the first advances in decipherment before 1819. In 1822, Champollion published his first breakthrough in the decipherment of the Rosetta hieroglyphs...

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...

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...

vertically, and in the middle when arranged horizontally. The initial decipherment of cuneiform was based on the Achaemenid royal inscriptions from Persepolis...

rediscovery of cuneiform writing and, from detailed studies of the trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions found on the ruins, the initial decipherment of cuneiform...

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...

Elamite cuneiform was a logo-syllabic script used to write the Elamite language. The corpus of Elamite cuneiform consists of tablets and fragments. The...

accurate copies of the cuneiform inscriptions found at Persepolis, were to prove to be extremely important to the decipherment of cuneiform writing. Before...

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...

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...

Persian, Elamite and Akkadian (Babylonian dialect); it allowed the decipherment of cuneiform script the Xanthos Obelisk (500 BCE; Xanthos, Turkey) in Ancient...

Before the decipherment of cuneiform text, knowledge of the history of the ancient Mesopotamia was mostly dependent upon classical authorities and the...

introduction of Elamite cuneiform. There are many similarities between the Proto-Elamite tablets and the contemporaneous proto-cuneiform tablets of the Uruk...

the modern deciphering of cuneiform. The annals themselves are notable for describing Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem during the reign of king Hezekiah...

system ‘(Issyk-)Kushan script’ from now on". Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts Decipherment of cuneiform Bonmann, Svenja; Halfmann, Jakob; Korobzow...

Assyriologists began deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions and excavated tablets that had been left by its speakers. In spite of its extinction, Sumerian...

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)...

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...

including the decipherment of cuneiform. John George Taylor (British, fl. 1851–1861), early archaeologist who investigated antiquities of the Middle East...

 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...

outlined some of his proposed decipherments of the script accomplished with a team of other scholars. Their proposed near-complete decipherment was published...

hieroglyphic and cuneiform inscriptions The Caylus vase, acquired circa 1760, was key in the decipherment of cuneiform. Another jar of Xerxes I, at the...