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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kenndo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Israel: [qb] Wow. Dr. Winters, forgive me for asking a stupid question. The fact was that I thought I knew a little something about Ancient Egypt, Nubia, etc., till I came to this site: MAN, I am learning alot! This is my question: I thought that the ancient language of Meroe, Ancient Nubia, etc., wasn't decipherable. Now that I know that it is translatable, can you explain the details for me? Is it only the language from Ancient Meroe that is translatable, or can we read Nubian documents from before 1,000 B.C.E.? Thanks. [/qb][/QUOTE]yes scholars could.kush used egyptian writing for thier documents in the egyptian new kindgom,later kerma before egypt conqured them and they used it after they free themselves from egypt after the new kingdom,but egyptian writing was use more so starting in the 8th century b.c. THE first meriotic script used egyptian script for thier own language around 275b.c. but it was different,because it became a fully developed alphabet and it became more advanced once they created thier own cursive script around 180 b.c. and it advanced further later. egyptian writing was used once again for a short time along with this script in the early first century a.d. meriotic not used after 440 a.d. anymore,and greek was used along with egytian coptic. Early medieval nubia had thier own script again called old nubian,but most of the letters were in greek but there was three meriotic letters used in this script too.later arabic was used along with nubian,greek and coptic,so alot of scripts were used during the medieval period.In early modern times after 1504,arabic script was only used,but now in recent history the nubian script is back. So all of the writing after 440 a.d. could be fully understood and writing could understood before meriotic. SOME of THE meriotic writing could be understood,but most of it still can't be undestood,but slow progess is happening,but all of it could be read however,but for the time being most can't be understood yet.SCHOLARS are using computers and other ways to make the script fully understood today and hopefully there would be a full understanding of it. edited [/QB][/QUOTE]
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