What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which ... expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 centuries and was finally replaced ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which ... expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in use for more than 30 centuries and was finally replaced ...