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The invention of cuneiform writing in Sumer Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop

1. The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing -- 2. Time and Place of the Invention -- 3. Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing -- 4. Received Ideas: The Origin of ...
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Ancient Mesopotamian Pottery Shows That People Understood Symmetry and Division 4,000 years before the Sumerians Invented Numbers

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in ...
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Writing, beer, and other Sumerian inventions that changed the world

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Method of Construction

Although the dimensions of the harp are taken directly from the archaeological record, this reconstruction differs in several ways from the original. Unlike the one shown here, the original harp has a ...