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19 avril 2023
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Author: Marie Young (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) 1. A short history of the Sumerology In the second half of the nineteenth century, after Akkadian and Persian cuneiform had been deciphered, Assyriologists discovered bilingual texts that revealed yet another language written in cuneiform. During the excavations of Nineveh in 1849, Henry C. Rawlinson identified Sumerian among the clay tablets found in the ancient Neo-Assyrian libraries, and got in touch with European colleagues t...