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Writing
Writing appeared in Mesopotamia more than five thousand years ago, and an early use was keeping accounts of grain and goods. Over time it came to hold laws, letters, poems and calculations, and it lets one person speak to someone far away in place and time.
Connects to
- History
- Records of the sky
- Sources and voices
- Whose voices are missing?
- What did people write down first?
- What was lost, and how to know?
- Epics
- The novel
- Printing
- Sacred texts