| 1 | The chicken scratch is cuneiform. | |
| 2 | "I do not understand, " reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. | |
| 3 | Its Assyrian collections formed the basis for the decipherment of cuneiform just as the acquisition of the Rosetta Stone has resulted in the unlocking of Egyptian hieroglyphic script. | |
| 4 | In addition, Cuneiform is also a kind of ideographic characters, the combination of several symbols could show out a new meaning. | |
| 5 | During excavations in 1843 and 1845 CE large collections of clay tablets were found carrying cuneiform signs. |