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MYS0DEDMM05PWD2·The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

Artifacts 6

Every copy this mystery rests on, each with its own key and its distance from the original.

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Photograph: Ur III Sumerian tablet, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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The Ur III administrative archives: photo
SpeakingArch (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA 4.0