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Sumerians and the Birth of Writing

The Ancients

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Sumerian

The earliest tablets in sumerian that are readable are very bureaucratic. They a created by administrators and designed to manage big agricultural estates. The people who were writing this thousands of years ago, did they not consider themselves sumerians? And i want to keep on writing a bit longer, because al na dealt more into this.

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