Love this story... Akkadian is a Semetic language (last written 1900 years ago) and ancient form of Assyrian and after 90 years (and many academics) working on the project have finally published a dictionary. the dictionary gives us some idea of what people spoke in Mesopotamia!
Oh how I admire linguists, since I have absolutely no talent with languages...
Like anthropologists, they looked at tomb stones, and other evidence of this cuneiform written language.
