There's a Rosetta Stone in Iran - The Story of the Behistun Inscription

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It's not just the Rosetta Stone that helped decipher mysterious ancient languages. The Behistun Inscription in Iran played a vital role in cracking the code for the many languages written in Cuneiform, the earliest writing system in the world!

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:18 The Behistun Inscription
05:15 Sponsor
06:50 Discovery of Cuneiform
10:56 Decipherment of Old Persian
17:06 Cracking the Code
18:24 Languages of Cuneiform
19:27 Deciphering Akkadian and Sumerian
21:59 Outro

A great book on how Cuneiform was deciphered: https://link.amazon/B0cHaSxsY
An amazing book on the writing system itself by none other than Irving Finkel: https://link.amazon/B0aMcE41Q
Learn cuneiform for yourself: https://link.amazon/B06xajbnV

Cuneiform links and resources:
https://cdli.earth/
https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofcun00sayc/page/n7/mode/2up
https://thedebrief.org/5000-year-old-tablets-can-now-be-decoded-by-artificial-intelligence-new-research-reveals/
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491239
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iY9xp4pLp88C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GGI-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TG5BAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/abs/analysis-of-the-babylonian-text-at-behistun/05C7D26C6AC7F8ED923DA8BA0C8BDDFE

Write your name in Cuneiform: https://www.penn.museum/cgi/cuneiform.php
Cuneiform translator: https://lingojam.com/Eng-Cuneiform

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