Cuneiform Video: The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack — E8 Intelligence Research

**Discovery Report: Video/Tablet Identification Mismatch** **Plain Statement:** The TED-Ed video **"The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack"** does **not** discuss a cuneiform tablet. It focuses exclusively on **Linear B tablets** from the Mycenaean Greek palaces (c. 1450–1200 BCE), primarily the archives of **Knossos (Crete)** and **Pylos (Mainland Greece)**. **Consequences for Requested Analysis:** Because the subject matter is Mycenaean Linear B — a syllabic script recording an early Greek dialect — **none of the requested Mesopotamian mathematical or astronomical parameters are present in the video's content.** * **No Sexagesimal (Base-60) Calculations:** Linear B tablets use a **decimal (base-10)** accounting system. Numbers are recorded with vertical strokes (units), horizontal dashes (tens), circles (hundreds), and circles with rays (thousands). There are no place-value notations, reciprocal tables, or base-60 arithmetic. * **No Mathematical Constants ($\p Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-08
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24048971
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Ancient Near East History
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Cuneiform Video: The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin
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Ancient Near East History
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Cuneiform Video: The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin
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Abstract

**Discovery Report: Video/Tablet Identification Mismatch** **Plain Statement:** The TED-Ed video **"The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack"** does **not** discuss a cuneiform tablet. It focuses exclusively on **Linear B tablets** from the Mycenaean Greek palaces (c. 1450–1200 BCE), primarily the archives of **Knossos (Crete)** and **Pylos (Mainland Greece)**. **Consequences for Requested Analysis:** Because the subject matter is Mycenaean Linear B — a syllabic script recording an early Greek dialect — **none of the requested Mesopotamian mathematical or astronomical parameters are present in the video's content.** * **No Sexagesimal (Base-60) Calculations:** Linear B tablets use a **decimal (base-10)** accounting system. Numbers are recorded with vertical strokes (units), horizontal dashes (tens), circles (hundreds), and circles with rays (thousands). There are no place-value notations, reciprocal tables, or base-60 arithmetic. * **No Mathematical Constants ($\p Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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