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• Proto-Elamite

  Proto-Elamite is the last un-deciphered writing system from the Ancient Near East with a substantial number of sources (more than 1600 published texts). It was used for a relatively short period around 3000 BC across what is today Iran. Proto-Elamite is a derived writing system originating from the Uruk invention of writing in southern Mesopotamia during the middle of the 4th millennium BC. Scribes in Susa in southwestern Iran took over a majority of the numerical signs as well as many of the nu…
• Lambert, Wilfred G.

  Name Lambert, Wilfred G. Dates 26 February 1926 - 9 November 2011 Birthplace Birmingham, UK Specialization Assyriology Major works Babylonian Wisdom Literature 1960; Ancient Near Eastern seals in Birmingham Collections (1966); Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood, with A. R. Millard, and Miguel Civil (Oxford 1969); Babylonian Oracle Questions (2007)
• Damerow, Peter

  Name Damerow, Peter Dates 20 December 1939 - 20 November 2011 Birthplace Berlin, Germany Specialization History of Science, Assyriology Major works Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the cultural evolution of thinking, Kluwer 1995; Changing Views on Ancient Near Eastern Mathematics, Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient vol. 19, Dietrich Reimer 2001 (with Jens Høyrup); Informationsverarbeitung vor 5000 Jahren: Frühe Schrift und Techniken der Wirtschaftsverwaltung im alten Vorder…