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3 days ago · represents the late 3rd millennium BC; represents Old Assyrian ductus of the early 2nd millennium BC, as adopted into Hittite; is the simplified sign as written by Assyrian scribes in the early 1st millennium BC and until the script's extinction.
- List of Cuneiform Signs
Note that the actual shape displayed by default by browsers...
- Sumerian Language
Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. ''native...
- Proto-Writing
Proto-writing consists of visible marks communicating...
- Achaemenid Royal Inscription
The trilingual inscriptions illustrate the multi-ethnic...
- Ugaritic Alphabet
The Ugaritic writing system is a Cuneiform Abjad...
- List of Cuneiform Signs
2 days ago · Old Akkadian, which was used until the end of the 3rd millennium BC, differed from both Babylonian and Assyrian, and was displaced by these dialects. By the 21st century BC Babylonian and Assyrian, which were to become the primary dialects, were easily distinguishable.
- Assyrian, Babylonian, Canaano-Akkadian, Old Akkadian
- Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform
3 days ago · Writing first appeared in the Near East at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. A very limited number of languages are attested in the area from before the Bronze Age collapse and the rise of alphabetic writing : the Sumerian, Hattic and Elamite language isolates, Hurrian from the small Hurro-Urartian family,
5 days ago · 2022 ( MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade. The year saw the removal of nearly all COVID-19 restrictions and the reopening of international ...
4 days ago · Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene. This article is a list of biological species, subspecies, and evolutionary significant units that are known to have become extinct during the Holocene, the current geologic epoch, ordered by their known or approximate date of disappearance from oldest to most recent.
1 day ago · Late 3rd century BC: Dry dock under Ptolemy IV (221–205 BC) in Hellenistic Egypt 3rd century BC – 2nd century BC: Blast furnace in Ancient China : The earliest discovered blast furnaces in China date to the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, although most sites are from the later Han dynasty .