Archaeologists digging outside the walls of Jeruselum's Old City have uncovered part of a clay tablet containing cuneiform symbols that dates back to 14th century B.C.E. The tablet measures 2 x 2.8 centimeters and is one centimeter thick.It is the oldest written document every found in Jerusalem, eclipsing the previous record by some 600 years.Prof. Wayne Horowitz , a scholar of Assyriology at the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology who helped decipher the script says:"The words the symbols form are not significant in themselves, but what is significant is that the script is of a very high level, testifying to...
New Online Dictionary For Word Mavens
In the beginning there was the Word.But without a dictionary no one knew how to spell it, pronounce it, how to use it in a sentence, if there was another word that was its opposite or meant the same thing, or where the word came from. In short, the whole story of the word was unavailable to the speaker. For the writer, fugetaboutit; tough enough to carve out those cuneiforms, you had to wing it on spelling and all the rest.Thence wrote Samuel Johnson his dictionary. Then Noah Webster. The Oxford English Dictionary followed. (Yes, I know I’m leaving out...