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625 people in 95 mysteries

Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.

Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
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Bram JagersmaLeiden Sumerologist whose 2010 descriptive grammar is the fullest modern account of the language.
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

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Enrique JiménezAssyriologist at LMU Munich who leads the electronic Babylonian Library and its Fragmentarium.
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

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Manfred KrebernikJena Assyriologist and the leading editor of Early Dynastic literary and incantation texts from Fara, Ebla and Abu Salabikh. · born 1953
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
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Manuel MolinaCSIC Assyriologist who built and edits the Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts, the census of the Ur III corpus.
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

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Robert D. BiggsOriental Institute Assyriologist who published the Abu Salabikh tablets and the archaic Kesh Temple Hymn. · born 1934
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
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Robert K. EnglundAssyriologist at UCLA, founding director of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and editor of the archaic Uruk texts. · 1952–2020
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

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Shai GordinAssyriologist at Ariel University who leads the Digital Pasts Lab and co-authored the neural restoration and Akkadian machine-translation pa
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian