# Adam Falkenstein · Person

> Assyriologist; first editor of the Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1, 1936). In Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk.

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# Adam Falkenstein

Assyriologist; first editor of the Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1, 1936) **1906–1966.**

[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)[1 event][1 source]

Adam Falkenstein is german Assyriologist (Heidelberg) who published the first edition and sign list of the Uruk tablets in 1936 and established the convention that they are Sumerian. (1906–1966), and appears in the record of Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk as assyriologist; first editor of the Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1, 1936).

One event on the site involves Falkenstein: Falkenstein publishes the first edition and sign list of the Uruk tablets (1936).

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## In the mysteries

**Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk**

Assyriologist; first editor of the Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1, 1936) · 1 event

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## What Adam Falkenstein did 1

1936[Falkenstein publishes the first edition and sign list of the Uruk tablets](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDQBRCNZ9W/falkenstein-publishes-the-first-edition-and-sign-list-of-the)

## Sources 1

[Archaische Texte aus Uruk (ATU 1)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHRBNBCHF/archaische-texte-aus-uruk-atu-1)

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