रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)

A #review of a couple of #books on the invention of the #alphabet in #scripts used for #writing:

"Alphabet Politics", The New York Review (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/01/19/alphabet-politics-the-greatest-invention-silvia-ferrara/ or https://archive.is/rfWaQ).

#History #Elamite #LinearElamite #Akkadian #Cuneiform #Script #Language #BookReview

Alphabet Politics | Josephine Quinn

Last summer a group of scholars announced that they had cracked Linear Elamite, a Bronze Age script used in the trading cities of Elam in the highlands of

The New York Review of Books
Jun 4, 2023 at 5:27amWeb