cuneiform
concept
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Aug
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Ancient writing system used in Mesopotamian civilizations, characterized by wedge-shaped impressions.
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Peak in the week of 13 Aug — 2 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentMichael ButtonThe Joe Rogan Experience · #2546 - Michael Button · 2:20:46 · 26 Aug
…about four thousand BC with the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform and stuff like that.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Single Day in the Past 🏚️⚔... · 45:27 · 15 Aug
…An entire professional class of scribes existed to manage this flood of information, trained for years in the difficult art of cuneiform, which was no simple alphabet, but a complicated system of hundreds of signs that took a long apprenticeship to master.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Single Day in the Past 🏚️⚔... · 35:04 · 15 Aug
…Writing, in the form of cuneiform, those wedge shaped marks pressed into wet clay tablets with a cut reed, which made it possible to record debts, laws, letters, contracts, prayers, and complaints for the very first time.…
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