A technology called the Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) System for Ancient Documentary Artifacts has brought scientists closer to cracking the world’s oldest undeciphered writings. Tablet Sb06392: account of five fields and their yields, with total on reverse, and seal of the ruler(?) of Susa; excavated at Susa in the early 20th century; Louvre Museum, Paris (Image courtesy of Dr Jacob L. Dahl, University of Oxford) The proto-Elamite writing...