# Stevenson 2025: Beyond Mesopotamia

> Tom Stevenson, 2025. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Journalism, used for the recorded positions of Desset and Dahl in 2025 and the provenance…

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# Beyond Mesopotamia

Tom Stevenson, 2025. _London Review of Books 47(4), 6 March 2025_.

Long essay on the Linear Elamite decipherment with interviews: Desset on the silver kunanki as the key (Shilhaha first, 72 of 77 hypothesised signs, 96 per cent of occurrences) and on continuity with Proto-Elamite; Dahl calling the Proto-Elamite links superficial and the paper "so full of errors"; the ethics objection to using objects from irregular excavations.

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Journalism, used for the recorded positions of Desset and Dahl in 2025 and the provenance objection.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Dahl called the 2022 paper full of errors in 2025.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/evidence/EVD0D1P94DA635N/dahl-called-the-2022-paper-full-of-errors-in-2025)

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[Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite)

The mystery article

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[Are the inscribed silver vessels genuine and where do they come from?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/questions/QST0D1P92PM16MQ/are-the-inscribed-silver-vessels-genuine-and-where-do-they)

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Stevenson, T. (2025). Beyond Mesopotamia. London Review of Books 47(4), 6 March 2025. https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
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