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Cuneiform

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By (author): Irving Finkel Jonathan Taylor

Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive down to modern times, preserving fascinating documents from ancient civilization, written by a variety of people and societies. From reading these tablets we can understand not only the history and economics of the time but also the beliefs, ideas and superstitions. This fascinating book will bring the world in which the cuneiform was written to life for the non-expert reader, revealing how ancient inscriptions can lead to a new way of thinking about the past. It will explain how this pre-alphabetic writing really worked and how it was possible to use cuneiform signs to record so many different languages so long ago. Richly illustrated with a wealth of fresh examples ranging from elementary school exercises to revealing private letters or beautifully calligraphic literature for the royal library, we will meet people that arent so very different from ourselves. We will read the work of many scribes from mundane record keepers to state fortune tellers, using tricks from puns to cryptography. For the first time cuneiform tablets and their messages are not remote and inaccessible, but wonderfully human documents that resonate today. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 320g
  • Dimensions: 145 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 11 May 2015
  • Publisher: British Museum Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780714111889

About Irving FinkelJonathan Taylor

Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper in the Department of the Middle East at the British Museum in London where he is the curator of the collection of cuneiform clay tablets. He is the best-selling author of The Ark Before Noah which documents the newly translated tablet of the Babylonian story of the flood which was recorded on clay tablets long before it was written down in the Hebrew Bible proving it to be one of the worlds most ancient and lasting stories. It is that tablet that has given rise to the story in this book.

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