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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4637 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 1 of 3 22 October 2012 at 10:30am | IP Logged |
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Here is a fascinating article on BBC News about the work on deciphering tablets in proto-Elamite, apparently the world's oldest undeciphered writing system:
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6657 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2 of 3 22 October 2012 at 2:09pm | IP Logged |
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Sadly though, we're not going to get to read other stuff than recordkeeping if we ever manage to descipher it :P
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4637 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 3 of 3 22 October 2012 at 2:18pm | IP Logged |
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True enough, but nevertheless it can give an interesting insight into how society was in that part of the world 5000 years ago.
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