Alphabet Politics

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Last summer a group of scholars announced that they had cracked Linear Elamite, a Bronze Age script used in the trading cities of Elam in the highlands of southern Iran, through which Central Asian tin, a crucial ingredient in bronze, was transported north to the Mesopotamian kingdoms of Babylon and Assyria.1 First identified by archaeologists […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/01/19/alphabet-politics-the-greatest-invention-silvia-ferrara/

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