Assyrian data store
by Anatole Beams
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Assyrian data store
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Anatole Beams
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Photograph - Photograph
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This is the longest lasting method of storing written data known to the human race. Cuniform script, written with a fine stylus usually into soft clay tablets and baked. This example is one of a massive collection of tablets and polygonal blocks held by the British Museum excavated from the Assyrian library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh. When the library burnt down in 612BC, much of its contents on parchment scrolls and writing boards were lost. But 30,943 clay tablets and blocks were baked hard and survived the gulf of time between then and now to give us a remarkable picture of life in the Assyrian Empire and Babylonia nearly 3000 years ago.
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December 14th, 2021
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