Understanding the earliest written language

Clearly, some people have more patience than others and certainly more than me. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have spent over 30 years and are just about ready to release Sumerian Dictionary v1.0. Lots of the source material, cuneiform tablets, comes from a boys’ school and so not surprisingly mcuh of it concerns heroes and women’s body parts. Still, I cannot imagine spending my entire career on a single project such as this but very cool that some people can.