September
02
/ 2022
Linguistics experts have been trying to decipher and translate an enigmatic type of ancient language known as Linear Elamite for more than 100 years. This writing system was used by people who lived in what is now southern Iran between 2,300 and 1,800 BC, and before its rediscovery in 1903 it had been completely lost in time. In a paper just published in the German journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology), a team of scholars claims to have deciphered significant sections of the ancient language’s script from the mere 40 examples of Linear Elamite that have been recovered from various Iranian archaeological sites over the past 120 years. However, this announcement has
