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Study of Sumerian and Akkadian languages reveal a lost world Iraq

Submitted by coldrum on Friday, 22 April 2011  Page Views: 3887

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Sippar submitted by AlexHunger : The famous code of Hamurabi, the Akkadadian ruler of Babylon, is probably the oldest law code still extant and dates to between 1702 to 1750 BCE. This stele, covered with cuneiforms was however taken to Susan, in modern Iran, by the conquering Medes, where it was found. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Gonzalo Rubio spends his days reading dead languages that haven't been spoken for thousands of years. An assyriologist at Pennsylvania State University, Rubio studies the world's very first written languages, Sumerian and Akkadian, which were used in ancient Mesopotamia (an area covering modern-day Iraq).

Sumerian appeared first, almost 5,000 years ago around the year 3,100 B.C. This writing was scratched into soft clay tablets with a pointed reed that had been cut into a wedge shape. Archaeologists call this first writing "cuneiform," from the Latin "cuneus," meaning wedge.

Sumerian and Akkadian were the languages of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, which flourished during the Bronze Age in a region often called the Cradle of Civilization, because it gave birth to the world's first complex urban cultures. Here not only written languages, but important advances in science, mathematics, art and politics were developed. Rubio talked to LiveScience about what these ancient people's leftover love poetry and sales receipts reveal about a lost world.

Read the interview with Live Science.
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