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Charlie 5 month s ago
#7 - that's simply because there are so many. Cuneiform was used to write several different ancient languages, all of which are known. There are 10s of thousands of tablets waiting to be translated due to a lack of labor, not knowledge.
"The oldest known writing in the world, Sumerian Cuneiform, is over 5000 years old and only 5-10% of all recovered tablets have been translated."
"The Bajau, a group of people in South East Asia who evolved to have spleens 50 percent larger than normal. This allows them to spend eight hours a day underwater, catching octopus by hand."