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This 5,500-year-old Kish tablet is the oldest written document
The Kish tablet, a humble clay slab, marks a key moment in the journey of writing. The tablet is the oldest written document we have, the dawn of recorded history as we know it. The Mesopotamians ...
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Iraqi student’s 4,000-year-old math mistake well preserved on a clay tablet
Excavated in 1931 from Kish, in present-day Iraq, the Ashmolean Museum houses the second-largest collection of cuneiform tablets in the UK, including some of the earliest known examples of writing.