the unfortunate reality of translating cuneiform
the unfortunate reality of translating cuneiform


They also invented selling subpar copper, which led to the invention of writing to customer service about said subpar copper.
17 0 ReplyThe Sumerians had fine metallurgy! Don't let one guy set their reputation. One admittedly very silly guy but nevertheless
14 0 ReplyThey must have, otherwise that person wouldn't be so angry to have received the inferior stuff! They expected much better.
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Farmers today don’t talk about much else, either.
The difference is now farmers are only 2% of the population so our tablets are full of other inane ramblings instead.
12 0 ReplyI don't know if I was supposed to read it like a Bill Wurtz video. But I did.
7 0 ReplyThe sun is a deadly laser!
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Do we really know that's the extent though. There are hundreds of thousands that haven't been deciphered. Maybe they wrote limericks, we don't know.
5 0 ReplyWe know it's not the entire extent because we also have a bunch of their literature and history in cuneiform. We even have some jokes! Although none of the ones I have read really survive the translation and time gap... at all. However, stuff like agricultural records are the bulk of it by the numbers simply because that was the stuff that was useful to ordinary people day to day
11 0 ReplyApparently they also documented the effects of too much beer on the human mind. Potentially some of the first records of alcoholism?
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There once was a man who had feet
There was not too much else he could eat
He had a long look at his arm
Thought with this I could farm
And that is why we have wheat
8 0 Replythis an ancient poem?
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