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Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel
The Royal Institution
Irving Finkel of the British Museum lectures at the Royal Institution on the invention and decipherment of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia, and why it is so hard to translate.
HN users recommend it as a delightful, well-told account of how cuneiform developed and was decoded.
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