Today one of toys for children and adults. (Children with adult supervision, we do not want accidents). It’s a funny little collection of artifacts that we have found in the net and made in a moment, with popsicle sticks, or those that sell for crafts. Many image and fewer words because they are self-explanatory. […]
Continue ReadingThe origins of writing (II). Cuneiform writing.
One of the earliest types of writing known is the cuneiform. Although Sumerian pictographs come from the late fourth millennium BC these are considered protowriting, since information conveyed by symbols without a linguistic structure. Cuneiform as such is fixed around 2800 BC. The term cuneiform comes from the Latin “cuneus,” meaning wedge as it was […]
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