Jake Lawrence on Nostr: A clay tablet from around 3200 BCE, one of the oldest bits of writing anyone has ...
A clay tablet from around 3200 BCE, one of the oldest bits of writing anyone has found, turns out to be a to-do list. Barley quantities, receipts, who owed what to whom. Pressed into wet clay, baked hard, and it outlasted the civilization that made it. The first thing humans bothered to write down wasn't a poem or a prayer. It was admin: someone trying not to forget their errands. I made a short comic about it.
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