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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/gutenberg_org/statuses/113990478821953084">Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 23:23:34 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" title="gutenberg_org@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/132842-48-20230813103534.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Project Gutenberg" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Project Gutenberg</a></section><article><p>The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It</p><p>In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia</p><p>By Joshua Hammer</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-worlds-oldest-writing-system-remained-unsolved-until-four-scholars-raced-decipher-it-180985954/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;lctg=93133550" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-worlds-oldest-writing-system-remained-unsolved-until-four-scholars-raced-decipher-it-180985954/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;lctg=93133550</a></p><p>Austen Henry Layard at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/40288" rel="nofollow">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/40288</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oldmanuscript" rel="tag">#oldmanuscript</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4552801#notice-8912954">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-12T23:23:34+09:00" title="Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 23:23:34 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113990478821953084" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113990478821953084">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4124696">Austen Henry Layard - Mitte 1860 Maull &amp; Polyblank, London - Algernon Graves</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/990/463/436/631/318/original/1c88e0d30124ae5e.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/990/463/436/631/318/original/1c88e0d30124ae5e.jpg</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4124697">"Mr. Hormuzd Rassam vide Layard's Nineveh", a portrait study of Hormuzd Rassam.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/990/468/024/182/347/original/005858df8ea8dbd9.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/990/468/024/182/347/original/005858df8ea8dbd9.jpg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.gutenberg.org</div><h5><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/40288#history">Books by Layard, Austen Henry (sorted by popularity)</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Project Gutenberg offers 75,179 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia
By Joshua Hammer
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-worlds-oldest-writing-system-remained-unsolved-until-four-scholars-raced-decipher-it-180985954/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550
Austen Henry Layard at PG:
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