I wish I had a fraction of the erudite drive of this man. He spent a 1000 hours over several months learning cuneiform to write a message to his girlfriend, even shutting himself in his apartment and avoiding her for weeks so he would have more time to do it. Then he spent another 1000 hours trying to decode an untranslated puzzling tablet that has a length of two short pages, even though hardly anyone cares what it says. The characters are way more complicated than Chinese too, and it is much harder to write in rapidly drying clay.
𒊍 Bear Chinese = 熊
𒊊 Lion Chinese = 獅
𒊌 Lion (alternate) Chinese = 獅
I'm such a failure I can't even read Sumerian Shakespeare, and he says these two pages are the best story in the world. I put my hours into league of legends instead of spending them well: learning dead languages.
http://sumerianshakespeare.com/35901.html