A single character can often make the difference between a clear-cut reading and a puzzling conundrum. Enrique Jiménez, a specialist in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, is engaged on the reconstruction of the beginnings of world literature. Mesopotamia was home to the first true civilization, and a rich and bilingual literary culture had appeared there by around the year 2500 BCE. Its texts were written in cuneiform script on clay tablets…
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Source: archeo