Origini della scrittura, la Mesopotamia in mostra a Venezia

A visitor looks at cuneiform writing plates on display at the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad on March 22, 2009. The National Museum, known as the "cradle of civilization" museum, only reopened at the end of February 2009 after its ancient treasures were looted in the chaotic aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003. AFP PHOTO /JOSEPH EID (Photo credit should read JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)

The Cyrus Cylinder, Achaemenid, 539-538 B.C., excavated at Babylon, Iraq, 1879, on display with fragments of table with Babylonia cuneiform inscription (bottom), Achaemenid, 539-538 B.C. in "The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: Charting a New Empire" June 20, 2013 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Cyrus Cylinder is a 2,600-year-old inscribed clay document from Babylon in ancient Iraq and one of the most famous surviving icons from the ancient world is part of a traveling exhibition organized by the British Museum. The Cylinder marks the establishment of Persian rule in 539 B.C. by Cyrus the Great, with the defeat of Babylon, the restoration of shrines, and the return of deported peoples and their gods. The Cyrus Cylinder and 16 related works on view, all on loan from the British Museum, reflect the innovations initiated by Persian rule in the ancient Near East (550331 B.C.) and chart a new path for this empire, the largest the world had known. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

A panel with hieroglyphics on show at a new exhibition titled "Egypt's Sunken Treasures" on April 14, 2008 in Madrid. Some 500 treasures of ancient Egypt retrieved by divers from under the sea are on display in Madrid from Wednesday, in a special space in the city's former slaughterhouse. AFP PHOTO/Angel NAVARRETE (Photo credit should read ANGEL NAVARRETE/AFP/Getty Images)

Tourists touch ancient hieroglyphics as they visit the Giza pyramids, on the southern outskirts of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on September 27, 2015. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED (Photo credit should read MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)

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