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Trivia about cuneiform
The Hittite language was written in this wedge-shaped system
Sumerians scratched this writing system into stone & wax in addition to clay tablets
The "Rosetta Stone" for this writing system was the "Behistun Inscription" found in Iran
Dating from around 3000 B.C., the Sumerians used this writing system seen here
The earliest scribes in Egypt wrote in hieroglyphics & those in Babylon wrote in this style
Around 1620 Pietro Della Valle brought to Europe a copy of this script from Behistun in Mesopotamia
About 3000 B.S. the Sumerians invented this writing system which used triangular marks
From the Latin for "wedge", it means wedge-shaped writing & we're not just Babylon
Georg Grotefend bet some drinking companions that he could decipher this wedge-shaped system of writing, & did in 1802
G.F. Grotefend and Sir Henry Rawlinson helped decipher forms of this wedge-shaped Sumerian writing
The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system
The Hittites borrowed this wedgy alphabetic system from the Babylonians; hope they gave it back
To read the Code of Hammurabi in its original script, you have to know how to read this
The foot contains wedge-shaped bones that share a name with this ancient Middle Eastern writing system
Transcribed in the 1800s, the Behistun Inscription is the Rosetta Stone for this type of writing developed in Mesopotamia