@niktemadur@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year 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-square6arrow-up159
arrow-up159message-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 • 1 year agomessage-square6
minus-square@Shard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish15•edit-21 year agoOnce I have a way of drawing sounds I’m going to let that cunt Ea-Nasir know how I really feel.
minus-square@z00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year ago2500 years later… Archaeologist excitedly unearths cuneiform tablet Hmmmm… “Ea-nasr… is… a cunt?!” Quietly reburies tablet while looking around furtively
minus-square@niktemadur@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year 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…”