Digital Article

Cracking Dead Languages

The story highlights efforts to decode ancient writing systems, focusing on Linear Elamite and the breakthroughs François Desset has made in deciphering it.

Visual Production

The efforts of production for this piece aligned fittingly with the topic, as in, it took a lot of patience and time. It involved searching and digitizing images from our archive, long conversations with the owners of the vessels, and many conversations with the Louvre.