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    The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published in...
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  • Notable examples of decipherment include the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts and the decipherment of cuneiform. A notable decipherment in recent years...
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    understanding of Egyptian enough that by the 1850s it was possible to fully translate ancient Egyptian texts. Combined with the decipherment of cuneiform at approximately...
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    Caylus vase (category Archaeology of the Achaemenid Empire)
    the modern decipherment of cuneiform and the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts. Beyond its historical value as a dynastic artifact of Achaemenid...
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    The proto-cuneiform script was a system of proto-writing that emerged in Mesopotamia, eventually developing into the early cuneiform script used in the...
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    of the subsequent decipherment of cuneiform was carried out using the multilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions, comparing the previously deciphered...
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    Georg Friedrich Grotefend (category Cuneiform)
    toward the decipherment of cuneiform. Georg Friedrich Grotefend had a son, named Carl Ludwig Grotefend, who played a key role in the decipherment of the Indian...
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    cuneiformists in the world. The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform in 1836. The first cuneiform inscriptions published...
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    Jean-François Champollion (category Knights of the Order of Saint Joseph)
    made the first advances in decipherment before 1819. In 1822, Champollion published his first breakthrough in the decipherment of the Rosetta hieroglyphs...
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    the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, established by Darius the Great (r. 522–486 BC). It was important to the decipherment of cuneiform, as it is...
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    Antoine-Jean Saint-Martin (category Members of the Société Asiatique)
    known languages, as opposed to the decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Rosetta Stone. All his decipherments were done by comparing the texts...
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    the cuneiform inscriptions at Persepolis proved to be a key turning-point in the decipherment of cuneiform, and the birth of Assyriology. The set of characters...
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    Henry Fox Talbot (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies)
    the decipherment of cuneiform, and ancient history. Talbot was born in Melbury House in Dorset and was the only child of William Davenport Talbot, of Lacock...
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  • was used for deciphering pointed out. Behistun Inscription, in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian; used for the decipherment of cuneiform. Karatepe bilingual...
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    rediscovery of cuneiform writing and, from detailed studies of the trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions found on the ruins, the initial decipherment of cuneiform...
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    Interpretation of the Minoan Scripts.", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 120–41, 1924 Chadwick, Decipherment... p.28 Chsdwick, Decipherment..,...
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  • Before the decipherment of cuneiform text, knowledge of the history of the ancient Mesopotamia was mostly dependent upon classical authorities and the...
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    Achaemenid royal inscriptions (category Cuneiform)
    vertically, and in the middle when arranged horizontally. The initial decipherment of cuneiform was based on the Achaemenid royal inscriptions from Persepolis...
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    Edward Hincks (category Alumni of Trinity College Dublin)
    Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform. He was one of the three men known as the "holy trinity of cuneiform", with Sir Henry Creswicke...
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    introduction of Elamite cuneiform. There are many similarities between the Proto-Elamite tablets and the contemporaneous proto-cuneiform tablets of the Uruk...
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    outlined some of his proposed decipherments of the script accomplished with a team of other scholars. Their proposed near-complete decipherment was published...
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    Carsten Niebuhr (category Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
    accurate copies of the cuneiform inscriptions found at Persepolis, were to prove to be extremely important to the decipherment of cuneiform writing. Before...
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  • Elamite cuneiform was a logo-syllabic script used to write the Elamite language. The corpus of Elamite cuneiform consists of tablets and fragments. The...
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    Assyriologists began deciphering the cuneiform inscriptions and excavated tablets that had been left by its speakers. In spite of its extinction, Sumerian...
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    Linear A (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2025)
    on the Decipherment of Linear A. Amsterdam: Hakkert. [9] Braović, Maja, et al., "A Systematic Review of Computational Approaches to Deciphering Bronze...
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    Bactria (category Historical regions of Afghanistan)
     2140 BC, or some 1000 years before the Trojan War. Since the decipherment of cuneiform script in the 19th century, however, which enabled actual Assyrian...
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    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Hittites...
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  • Sennacherib's Annals (category Collection of the Israel Museum)
    before the modern deciphering of cuneiform. The annals are notable for describing Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem during the reign of king Hezekiah. This...
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    Irving Finkel (category Alumni of the University of Birmingham)
    of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in cuneiform inscriptions...
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    Hittite language (category Extinct languages of Asia)
    article contains cuneiform script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Hittite...
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