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  1. Jul 2020
    1. The Use of Medical Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging in the Study of Ceramic and Clay Archaeological Artifacts from the Ancient Near East

      with non destructive methods such as Computed Tomography (CT) imaging it is possible to investigating and read hidden cuneiform texts without breaking the envelope, also Imaging the interior of cuneiform letters. This method is a sophisticated imaging technique.

      http://www.nino-leiden.nl/message/seeing-through-clay-4000-#annotations:OGSbcLpWEeqFh7dLZ30UwA

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RmTpMoH-1o&feature=emb_logo

    1. They hold the styli between the thumb and all other fingers extended, while the tablet lays flat on the left hand.

      Holding the stylus.

    2. Cuneiform Writing Techniques

      Scribes used different materials and sizes of the stylus for different purposes. For example Reed, Bone and Metal stylus. https://www.academia.edu/12047738/The_Cuneiform_Stylus

    1. The evolution of writing from tokens to pictography, syllabary and alphabet illustrates the development of information processing to deal with larger amounts of data in ever greater abstraction.

      This study can provide an important information about the characteristic of the writing system in cuneiform tablets