It remained in use into the first century BCE, and also we found a giant trilingual inscription at Mt. Behistun. We did misread Sumerian as Akkadian for a while before we figured out it was a whole other language.
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cannedtuna@lemmy.world@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Honestly every time I see cuneiform I wonder how the fuck someone figured out how to read this shit.
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chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean, are our chicken scratches that different from their arrows and dots? They’re symbols that represent other ideas. Seems fairly straightforward to me.
tomiant@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Our phoenician method is wayyyy more legible than cuneiform. They have super complex rules that like later stuff and lines can change the meaning of previous scribbles.
I love cuneiform though. It’s just so pretty.