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Humans Have Independently Invented Writing More Than Once, And Generally For The Same PurposeAncient Sumerian cuneiform script carved into a clay tablet.

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Humans Have Independently Invented Writing More Than Once, And Generally For The Same PurposeAncient Sumerian cuneiform script carved into a clay tablet.
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Humans Have Independently Invented Writing More Than Once, And Generally For The Same Purpose

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Ea-nāṣir: How An Ancient Copper Merchant Became An Internet Star A cuneiform table on a black background.

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Ea-nāṣir: How An Ancient Copper Merchant Became An Internet Star A cuneiform table on a black background.
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Ea-nāṣir: How An Ancient Copper Merchant Became An Internet Star

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Clay Cylinders May Rewrite The Timeline On The Origins Of The AlphabetOne of the four finger-sized cylinders found in an ancient Syrian tomb, showing the markings scratched on it that could be the origins of the alphabet.

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Clay Cylinders May Rewrite The Timeline On The Origins Of The AlphabetOne of the four finger-sized cylinders found in an ancient Syrian tomb, showing the markings scratched on it that could be the origins of the alphabet.
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Clay Cylinders May Rewrite The Timeline On The Origins Of The Alphabet

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3,500-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablet Contains Ancient Shopping ReceiptCuneiform tablet shopping receipt

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3,500-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablet Contains Ancient Shopping ReceiptCuneiform tablet shopping receipt
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3,500-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablet Contains Ancient Shopping Receipt

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A New Language Has Been Unearthed From Ancient Ruins In TurkeyThe Lion Gate in the south west of Hattusa at sun rise, also known as Hattusha, is an ancient city located near modern Bogazkale in the Corum Province of Turkey’s Black Sea Region.

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A New Language Has Been Unearthed From Ancient Ruins In TurkeyThe Lion Gate in the south west of Hattusa at sun rise, also known as Hattusha, is an ancient city located near modern Bogazkale in the Corum Province of Turkey’s Black Sea Region.
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A New Language Has Been Unearthed From Ancient Ruins In Turkey

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Google Translate For Ancient Cuneiform? Archaeologists Have Used AI To Find A Waycuneiform script on clay tablet in the Akkadian language

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Google Translate For Ancient Cuneiform? Archaeologists Have Used AI To Find A Waycuneiform script on clay tablet in the Akkadian language
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Google Translate For Ancient Cuneiform? Archaeologists Have Used AI To Find A Way

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AI Deciphers Ancient Babylonian Texts And Finds Beautiful Lost HymnAn ancient Babylonian text of the 11th Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh

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AI Deciphers Ancient Babylonian Texts And Finds Beautiful Lost HymnAn ancient Babylonian text of the 11th Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh
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AI Deciphers Ancient Babylonian Texts And Finds Beautiful Lost Hymn

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Oldest Depiction Of A Ghost Discovered – With Exorcism Instructions Included

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Hundreds Of Ancient Tablets Smuggled To The US From Mysterious Lost City

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4,000-Year-Old Artifacts Reveal Locations Of The 11 Lost Cities Of Assyriaarticle image

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4,000-Year-Old Artifacts Reveal Locations Of The 11 Lost Cities Of Assyria

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