The archaic cuneiform script was adopted by the Akkadian Empire from the 23rd century BC (short chronology). ... (circa 490 BC), in the newly created Old Persian cuneiform. The complexity of cuneiforms prompted the development of a …

About 2600 BCE, cuneiform began to represent syllables of the Sumerian language. Finally, cuneiform writing became a general purpose writing system for logograms, syllables, and numbers. From the 26th century BCE, this script was adapted to the Akkadian language, and from there to others, such as Hurrian and Hittite.

Carolingian minuscule or Caroline minuscule is a script which developed as a calligraphic standard in the medieval European period so that the Latin alphabet of Jerome's Vulgate Bible could be easily recognized by the literate class from one region to another. It is thought to have originated before AD 778 at the scriptorium of the Benedictine monks of Corbie Abbey, about …

Exegesis (/ ˌ ɛ k s ɪ ˈ dʒ iː s ɪ s / EK-sih-JEE-sis; from the Greek ἐξήγησις, from ἐξηγεῖσθαι, "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text. Traditionally, the term was used primarily for work with religious texts, especially the Bible.In modern usage, exegesis can involve critical interpretations of virtually any text, including not just ...

The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC. It does so by repetitively listing Sumerian cities, the kings …

Semitic languages were spoken and written across much of the Middle East and Asia Minor during the Bronze Age and Iron Age, the earliest attested being the East Semitic Akkadian of Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa and Babylonia) from the third millennium BC.. The origin of Semitic-speaking peoples is still under discussion. Several locations were proposed …

Mar 14, 2021 · Student exercise tablet, c.a. 20th-16th century B.C.,The Metropolitan Museum of Art Until the alphabetic script was developed after 100 BCE, cuneiform writing was widely used across every great Mesopotamian civilization. The Akkadians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hittites, and Assyrians were several among a long list of ancient societies that embraced cuneiform.

Year Created or Date of Earliest Known Text: c.1250 (but most likely much earlier) Used By ... and was related to the Hittite language and script. While Hittite was based on Akkadian cuneiform, Luwian was an indigenous writing system developed for the Luwian language. ... but the simplified form used fewer scripts. Compared to Akkadian ...

An inscription, discovered in a palace, was carved on a brick whose lower left corner only has remained, explained Yusef Majidzadeh, head of the Jiroft excavation team."The two remaining lines are enough to recognize the Elamite script," he added."The only ancient inscriptions known to experts before the Jiroft discovery were cuneiform and hieroglyph," said Majidzadeh, …

Hittite was written in an adapted form of Peripheral Akkadian cuneiform orthography from Northern Syria. The predominantly syllabic nature of the script makes it difficult to ascertain the precise phonetic qualities of some of the Hittite sound inventory.. The syllabary distinguishes the following consonants (notably, the Akkadian s series is dropped),