niktemadur@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoDo we know how long it took for cuneiform to develop from counting cows and barley, to drafting official documents and contracts, to creating literature?message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down10
arrow-up159arrow-down1message-squareDo we know how long it took for cuneiform to develop from counting cows and barley, to drafting official documents and contracts, to creating literature?niktemadur@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareShard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-27 days agoOnce I have a way of drawing sounds I’m going to let that cunt Ea-Nasir know how I really feel.
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days ago2500 years later… Archaeologist excitedly unearths cuneiform tablet Hmmmm… “Ea-nasr… is… a cunt?!” Quietly reburies tablet while looking around furtively
minus-squareniktemadur@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoI can almost picture the academic analysis… “The first character syllable can be read as kah or kuh, while the second character is read as unt, together they make the sound kawnt…”
Once I have a way of drawing sounds I’m going to let that cunt Ea-Nasir know how I really feel.
2500 years later…
Archaeologist excitedly unearths cuneiform tablet
Hmmmm… “Ea-nasr… is… a cunt?!”
Quietly reburies tablet while looking around furtively
I can almost picture the academic analysis…
“The first character syllable can be read as kah or kuh, while the second character is read as unt, together they make the sound kawnt…”