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Milestones in reading

Marilyn Lundberg, an associate with the West Semitic Research Project, holds a 4,000-year-old tablet deciphered by a process called reflectance transformation imagery at USC's Ahmanson Center. Through the imagery process Lundberg is able to see that the tablet is written in a Sumerian language and lists laborers.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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