Large Cache of Texts May Offer Insight Into One of Africa’s Oldest Written Languages
Archaeologists in Sudan have uncovered the largest assemblage of Meroitic inscriptions to date
By Jason Daley
smithsonian.com
April 13, 2018 4:05PM
Archaeologists in Sudan have uncovered a large cache of rare stone inscriptions at the Sedeinga necropolis along the Nile River. The collection of funerary texts are inscribed in Meroitic, one of Africa’s earliest written languages.
As Charles Q. Choi at LiveScience reports, the find is full of potential. As the largest assemblage of Meroitic inscriptions ever discovered, it may help scholars gain a better understanding of the language, which to date remains only partially deciphered.
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