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iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

We’ve uncovered less than 1% of the Assyrian/Babylonian tablets that are thought to exist. Theresa a lot of stuff out there that’s well preserved thankfully even if we haven’t uncovered it yet.

Whats cool is cuneiform could be written phonetically so a Babylonian scribe could write down any language even if they don’t understand it. They apparently could also write at the speed a person speaks so they acted like stenographers in court or executive assistants for rich merchants or elites.

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