The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 11, The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; With a Memoir (Continued) (1849), pp. 1-192 ...
Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws ... a form known as proto-cuneiform. The symbols on the tablet represent animals, commodities, beverages, some processes, and various ...
Just like in the Book of Genesis, the voyagers release birds ... archaeologists have since discovered much older cuneiform ...
Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...