Carved on a disk about the size of a dinner plate was writing in an unknown language. The debate has raged for a century: Is this artifact real or fake?

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

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