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Sumer

"Gifts from the High and Mighty of Adab to the High Priestess, on the occasion of her election to the temple."

[Image source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sumerian_26th_c_Adab.jpg]

The people of Sumer were among the first to devise a writing system.  Employing a stylus on damp clay, they used a written script known as cuneiform ("wedge-shaped").  With it they were able to record their history, keep records, conduct trade, communicate over long distances, maintain a code of laws, and preserve a religious and secular literature that influenced subsequent cultures.  It was a revolution in communication comparable to Guttenberg's moveable-type printing press and the Internet.  Much of what we know today about ancient Mesopotamia has been culled from the clay tablets that have survived the ravages of time.

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