The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an early-attested Indo-European language, as well as numerous fragments in other Anatolian languages, alongside Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hurrian texts.

Among the clay tablets are school texts, Rey says ... Finally, these finds demonstrate how the Akkadians managed a Sumerian city, especially one located on the frontier of the empire itself.” ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was signed by a brewer.

The texts contain cuneiform symbols ... Rey explained: “Sargon developed this new form of governance by conquering all the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia, creating what most historians call the first ...

The engraved symbols may be part of the earliest known alphabet, but not everyone agrees. . | Credit: Glenn Schwartz/Johns ...

Today we would call him an Assyriologist, an expert in the language and history of the ancient Mesopotamian cultures that wrote Sumerian and ... they read the ancient texts, they realized this ...

Their rivalry became a race to achieve what had seemed an impossible feat: the decipherment of the Akkadian language and the ancient Sumerian texts inscribed on clay tablets from the Assyrian and ...

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