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Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian tradeResearchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.
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Brewed brilliance: the surprising role of beer in the rise of Sumerian societyThe oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government BureaucracyThe artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
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