Old Assyrian

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Old Assyrian

Old Assyrian refers to the Old Assyrian period of the Ancient Near East

Ancient Near East

The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia , Fars Province, Elam and Medes , Anatolia , the Levant , and Ancient Egypt, from the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BCE until the region's conquest by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, or covering both th...
, ca. 20th to 16th centuries BC (the Middle Bronze Age)

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Old Assyrian refers to the Old Assyrian period of the Ancient Near East

Ancient Near East

the Old Assyrian Empire, see Assyrian Empire
the Old Assyrian language, see Akkadian language
Akkadian language

Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
Old Assyrian cuneiform, see Cuneiform script
Cuneiform script

Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of writing system. Emerging in Sumer around the 30th century BC, with predecessors reaching into the late 4th millennium , cuneiform writing began as a system of pictography....

Old Assyrian

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