What really blows my mind about it has always been that there are properly more people alive today who can read Sumerian Cuneiform than there have ever been -- including back when there was something called Sumeria and they were using Cuneiform.
OT grammar question: I've noticed some comments from various posters use "properly" where I would have used "probably." Is this an alternate use of the word "properly" of which I have heretofore been unaware?