Good to see that people are adressing this. I'm so sick of everyone wanting to 'write' a 'book'. - eviltoast
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    4 months ago

    At first, I thought it strange that a lot of these ancient tablets are receipts and bank statements.

    That’s exactly what writing was invented for, from after the mid fourth millennium bce, the first few hundred years of rudimentary writing are accounting archives and lists of names (gods, jobs). Actual information (royal achievements, how-to, religion) came shortly before the mid third millennium.

    Hundreds of years of nothing but bean grain counting.