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Tablets Shed New Light on Aramaic

Caption: Tablets uncovered at Persepolis in Iran are covered with writing in Aramaic. The archive, being studied at the University of Chicago, provides new insights on the language, which has been written and spoken in the Middle East continuously since ancient times.

Credit: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

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