A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to many world firsts – including beer production.
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Generations of readers have experienced the frustration of reading fragments when trying to access classics of ancient Mesopotamian literature.
Writing has only been a part of the human story for the last 5,000 years. In comparison, humans began to communicate using speech some 50,000 years ago.
The possible join between the fragments of an ancient epic written in cuneiform in London and Geneva has been speculated for over 50 years.
Cuneiform was used for over 3,000 years in the Ancient Near East, but was only decoded in the 19th century. The writing form is still revealing amazing stories, from literature to mathematics.
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Honorary Research Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Cultural Computing, Director NVIDIA Joint-Lab on Mixed Reality, University of Nottingham
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Privatdozent (Associate Professor), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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Reader in Computer Science and Leader of Software and Systems Engineering Research, Keele University
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Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich