proto-Elamite

American  

[proh-toh-ee-luh-mahyt] / ˌproʊ toʊˈi ləˌmaɪt /

noun

1. the Indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.

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Example Sentences

The single most-read education story this year was an account of how researchers were using new techniques to decipher the Bronze Age proto-Elamite script, recorded on clay tablets held in the Louvre in Paris.

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It's being used to help decode a writing system called proto-Elamite, used between around 3200BC and 2900BC in a region now in the south west of modern Iran.

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Dr Dahl says that one of the really important historical significances of this proto-Elamite writing is that it was the first ever recorded case of one society adopting writing from another neighbouring group.

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For instance, proto-Elamite was the first writing ever to use syllables.

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Proto-Elamite is the last remaining undeciphered writing from the ancient world The world's oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics.

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