A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it really began
www.newscientist.com
A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first represented their speech with written words
  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    the article was absolutely fascinating.

    The same was presumably true of proto-cuneiform and early Egyptian hieroglyphs, which means the real surprise isn’t that proto-Elamite failed, but that the other two writing systems succeeded. Perhaps, says Dahl, they did so because the elites who benefited from writing lost power in ancient Iran, but maintained control in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.