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The Ancient Mesopotamians Really, Really Loved Beer
While we may not have much information about some ancient civilizations, one thing food historians agree on is that the ...
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World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
The team systematically compared motifs from the cylinder seals with proto-cuneiform pictographs to see whether any of them correlated in both shape and meaning. The researchers anticipated making ...
Courthouse News Service2 个月
Key to origins of Mesopotamian writing could be in ancient accounting system
Like the cylindrical seals, proto-cuneiform was used for accounting and bureaucratic purposes but many of the 800 identifiable proto-cuneiform pictographs aren’t yet decipherable. "The close ...
BBC14 年
Early writing tablet
It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...