Many Assyrian tablets have been found with Aramaic inscribed on them. Assyrian scribes are often depicted in pairs. One writing in Akkadian on a cuneiform tablet, the other writing in Aramaic on a ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

Well before Rawlinson, Hincks grasped that Akkadian writing, like hieroglyphs, consisted of both phonetic symbols and logograms. Hincks had also been way ahead of Rawlinson in recognizing that ...