Le cunéiforme, de la tablette d’argile au téléphone portable : une histoire des technologies de l’enseignement de l’Antiquité à nos jours

Abstract

Cuneiform is supposedly one of the most complex scripts of antiquity, and yet it endured for over 3000 years in its heartland of southern Iraq. At its most widespread, in the later second millennium BC, communities across the Middle East—from western Iran to Cyprus, via Egypt and Anatolia—wrote to each other, and for themselves, in cuneiform script. In these lectures, I suggest that cuneiform was not as hard to learn as we moderns have thought. If that is so, how can we use these historical i...