Word: cuneiforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lieutenant in charge of the Persepolis expedition, Archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld of Germany, had more to report to his chief since the utensils, paintings and sculpture which he described last winter (TIME, Jan. 30). Cutting through a ridge to shift his railroad, Dr. Herzfeld came upon hundreds of cuneiform tablets in the Elamite (pre-Persian) language which he hoped would give the battles of Marathon and Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum...
Sargon's Bull. No great number of Chicagoans, even of the select 300 who attended the Oriental Institute's opening, could begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this...
Into Asia Minor Dr. Breasted has followed his upward-struggling human animal, to uncover layer upon layer of successive towns-"layer cakes of civilization"-over a range of 5,000 years. By this time man had learned to write in cuneiforms, and in cuneiform tablets at Alishar Dr. Breasted brought to light the last remnants of Hittite speech. Meanwhile the Egyptians were going forward, had learned to write on the sides of their cedar coffins. Texts of these writings which the Institute has been translating for nine years, reveal, says Dr. Breasted, "the dawn of conscience." In Sakkara...
...Pfleffer, and R. F. S. Starr, during which time sufficient area has been laid bare to give an extremely accurate picture of the lives and customs of the people who lived there prior to the destruction and desertion of the city shortly after 1500 B.C. Great quantities of inscribed cuneiform tablets show the completeness and precision with which business records were kept. No business man's file today could be more painstakingly kept, nor his protection against law-suit more meticulously complete than that inscribed on unbaked clay tablets 3500 years...
Scholar Price says he first hunted up ancient alphabets, "including Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Babylonian cuneiform, Semitic Phoenician, Greek, Hebrew and Roman and sat down to draw far-fetched conclusions...