A pottery jar filled with Cuneiform tablets, dating to the old Babylonian period 3600-4000 years ago, found in Uma southern Iraq. Iraqi museum, Old Babylonian Gallery [6440×2608]
A pottery jar filled with Cuneiform tablets, dating to the old Babylonian period 3600-4000 years ago, found in Uma southern Iraq. Iraqi museum, Old Babylonian Gallery [6440×2608]
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Those little tablets amaze me. For all our modern technology, it was the Babylonians who managed to create the longest form of data storage in clay.