Irving Finkel

But it's common sense.

But you see the thing.

You see the thing.

It's predicated on the assumption that what we have is only what there was.

And this is such a fallacy.

It needs to be attacked left, right, and center.

That's important.

Well, the first thing is how the cuneiform writing system works, because the crucial point, and once you see it, it makes a lot of things clear, is that they wrote in syllables.

So if you take the English alphabet, which of course they didn't,

You have the letter B, G, D, P, H, and so forth.

They couldn't write a consonant.

They couldn't do that.

So what they did is they had a vowel before a consonant or one after.

So you have ab and ba.

But as they had four vowels, you had to have ab and ba, ib and bi, ub and bu, eb and be.

So you had the range of things clustered around what we call a consonant.

So they had all those for all the letters, which gave them a basic system.

There was much more to it than that, and it was more complicated than that.

We don't have to really go into it.

But basically, if you are a Babylonian,