Deciphered the Linear Elamite by a French archaeologist

[Pax Augusta]

The French archaeologist Francois Desset has deciphered one of the three ancient writings of 4000-5000 years ago that still resisted any attempt at deciphering. The writing in question is called "Linear Elamite" and was used in Iran in the 3rd millennium BC. It was announced in November by the University of Padua because Francois Desset is a member of the Unipd Archaeological Mission in Iran. The Elamite language is considered neither Semitic nor Indo-Iranian or Indo-European, at present it is classified as isolated.

interview with François Desset in English

EXCLU. Un Français "craque" une écriture non déchiffrée de plus de 4000 ans, remettant en cause la seule invention de l'écriture en Mésopotamie


https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-paleo/archeologie/breaking-the-code-en-craquant-une-ecriture-non-dechiffree-vieille-de-plus-de-4000-ans-un-francais-remet-en-cause-la-seule-invention-de-l-ecriture-en-mesopotamie_149795

 

[torzio]

From what I read

Elamite was spoken mostly by Elam people and some Lar people in western Iran ...............not sure if it has a persian association unless it came to Iran via Turkenistan via Uzbekistan very early ...............Persian have noted by scholars and others that Persians entered Iran via Uzkekistan in the late bronze-age ..................so if Elamite have any Persian, then did it arrive in Iran as a very early proto-persian ( uzbekistan ) group.

persians state
The Elamites were not Iranians, nor were they Semitic. They spoke a language of their own, completely unrelated to the later languages of the Iranian peoples, or indeed to any other known language ("as distant from Akkadian as Chinese is from English"). Their racial connections cannot be known for sure - but they were not related to the Medes, Persians and other Iranian peoples who started to arrive on the Iranian plateau later, from about 1000 BC.



Turkmenistan is a possibility with its many ancient sites yet to be classified

 

[PMillitech]

Francois Desset himself implies that Proto-Elamite was ancestral to Linear Elamite, which was essentially proto-Iranian. What's really notable about his work, is that he has been able to determine Proto-Elamite was not a product of Proto-Cuniemform, but was it's own unique contemporary language. Desset, has rewritten history!

 

[Angela]

^^Thank you for setting the record straight. Unfortunately that is often required here.