Decipherment of cuneiform
1857 · Event
Rawlinson, Hincks, Talbot and Oppert independently translate the same Akkadian inscription for the Royal Asiatic Society, proving the script can be read.
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- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 BCE)
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- On the Origin of Species (1859)
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