It remained in use into the first century BCE, and also we found a giant trilingual inscription at Mt. Behistun. We did misread Sumerian as Akkadian for a while before we figured out it was a whole other language.
I mean, are our chicken scratches that different from their arrows and dots? They’re symbols that represent other ideas. Seems fairly straightforward to me.
Our phoenician method is wayyyy more legible than cuneiform. They have super complex rules that like later stuff and lines can change the meaning of previous scribbles.
Honestly every time I see cuneiform I wonder how the fuck someone figured out how to read this shit.
It remained in use into the first century BCE, and also we found a giant trilingual inscription at Mt. Behistun. We did misread Sumerian as Akkadian for a while before we figured out it was a whole other language.
I mean, are our chicken scratches that different from their arrows and dots? They’re symbols that represent other ideas. Seems fairly straightforward to me.
Our phoenician method is wayyyy more legible than cuneiform. They have super complex rules that like later stuff and lines can change the meaning of previous scribbles.
I love cuneiform though. It’s just so pretty.