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List view record 1: The Mesopotamian riddle : an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writingList view anchor tag for record 1: The Mesopotamian riddle : an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing
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The Mesopotamian riddle : an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing

Hammer, Joshua, 1957-2025
It was one of history's great vanishing acts. As early as 3500 BCE, scribes in the mud-walled city-state of Sumer used a reed stylus to press tiny wedge-shaped symbols into clay. For three thousand years, the script chronicled the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and epic literature of...
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