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minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 months ago(a fyi nitpick: their tablets weren’t chiseled. Cuneiform was written by pressing a reed into soft clay)
minus-squarefilcuk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoTIL, makes sense. I always thought how angry I’d be if my tablet cracked half way through chiseling.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agohere’s Professor Finkel talking about how cuneiform was written
(a fyi nitpick: their tablets weren’t chiseled. Cuneiform was written by pressing a reed into soft clay)
TIL, makes sense. I always thought how angry I’d be if my tablet cracked half way through chiseling.
here’s Professor Finkel talking about how cuneiform was written