# Robert K. Englund · Person

> Assyriologist at UCLA, founding director of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and editor of the archaic Uruk texts. In The unread cuneiform: half…

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[Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)[People](https://mysteriesdept.com/people)Robert K. Englund

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# Robert K. Englund

Assyriologist at UCLA, founding director of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and editor of the archaic Uruk texts. **1952–2020.**

[The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)[1 event][1 source]

Robert K. Englund is american Assyriologist (1952-2020), professor at UCLA, co-founder with Jürgen Renn of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in 2000 and editor of the proto-cuneiform texts from Uruk and Jemdet Nasr (1952–2020), and appears in the record of unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian as assyriologist at UCLA, founding director of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and editor of the archaic Uruk texts.

One event on the site involves Englund: Robert Englund and Jürgen Renn begin the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (2000).

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## In the mysteries

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

Assyriologist at UCLA, founding director of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and editor of the archaic Uruk texts. · 1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)

## What Robert K. Englund did 1

2000[Robert Englund and Jürgen Renn begin the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDPFSXT8WJ/robert-englund-and-jurgen-renn-begin-the-cuneiform-digital)

with [Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/organisations/ORG0D1P8Z1E15FH/cuneiform-digital-library-initiative)

## Organisations 1

[Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/organisations/ORG0D1P8Z1E15FH/cuneiform-digital-library-initiative)

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## Sources 1

[About CDLI (Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHPH2QMG3/about-cdli-cuneiform-digital-library-initiative)

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American Assyriologist (1952-2020), professor at UCLA, co-founder with Jürgen Renn of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in 2000 and editor of the proto-cuneiform texts from Uruk and Jemdet Nasr

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