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Kushites did have writing though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroitic_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroitic_script.
by marc_abonce 6y ago
Kushites did have writing though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroitic_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroitic_script.
- wl 6y agoIt's not writing that's well understood. There's no parallel texts like the Rosetta Stone. Also, Meroitic isn't closely related to any other language we have knowledge of. As a result, we can read a few names and little else.
- bsanr 6y agoI think that wraps around to the issue one of the other comments raised, which is the contention that less effort has been put into this area compared to, say, the civilizations whose languages are represented on the Rosetta Stone. Who's to say that there isn't one for Kush, buried in some undiscovered site? Or, what about using ML to investigate similarities in construction and form between the languages conveyed in Meroitic and other languages?