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Linear Elamite has puzzled scholars since it was first discovered in excavations at the city of Susa (biblical Shushan) in 1903. The undeciphered script was used in southern Iran from 2300 until 1880 B.C.E., when it was replaced by Mesopotamian cuneiform.

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Endnotes

1. François Desset, Kambiz Tabibzadeh, Matthieu Kervran, Gian Pietro Basello, and Gian Pietro Marchesi, “The Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing,” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie 112.1 (2022), pp. 11–60. https://doi.org/10.1515/za-2022-0003.