Ancient Mesopotamian scribal culture treated repetition as authority.
Writing preserved civilization through disciplined copying rather than innovation. 📝
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https://brewminate.com/the-scribal-copyists-of-ancient-mesopotamia-when-writing-became-repetition/
How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html
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Teaching child visitors how to write their names using an unfamiliar or antique alphabet is a favorite activity of museum educators, but Dr. Irving Finkel, a cuneiform expert who specializes in ancient Mesopotamian medicine and magic, has grander designs.
It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the Japanese pencil industry—or, possibly, fall flat on their faces. Hachiro Ogawa, the son of founder Harunosuke Ogawa, was Tombow's managing director, and he had just finished a years-long project, at enormous cost,
I came across a note about "The mortuary roll of Lucy of Hedngham", part of an exhibition at the British Library on "Medieval Women in their own words.' . I've also just read a note from a few years ago by someone who worked as a consultant during the selection process that brought it to the fore, including it in their digitisation project. I think the latter is probably a better introduction.
https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-mortuary-roll-of-lucy-of-hedingham.html
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https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2025/01/the-mortuary-roll-of-lucy-of-hedingham.html
“A London furniture conservator has been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why #IceAge hunter-gatherers drew #CavePaintings ” 20,000 years ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64162799
The study ( #OpenAccess ): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774322000415
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