Portal:Ancient Near East/DYK
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[[Category:WikiProject Ancient Near East articles]]
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...that ca. 5300 BC Eridu was the first settlement in what would become the cradle of civilization?
...that the first writing system was developed in the late 4th millenium BC in Sumer? It was a logographic script which still remains undeciphered.
...that the Sumerian language, the Kassite language, and the Hattic language are all language isolates, unrelated to any other known language?
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...that the ancient Elamite language is proposed to be distantly related to the modern Dravidian languages? It is attested from ca. 2500 BC, and a still undeciphered "proto-Elamite" goes back to ca. 3000 BC.
...that the earliest attested Semitic language is Akkadian, ca. 2500 BC?
...that the earliest attested Indo-European language is Hittite, from ca. the 18th century BC?
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...that the Hurrian language and the Urartian language are related to each other, but they form a language family unrelated to any other known languages?
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