Un livre aux explications simples et agréables, mais surtout splendidement illustré de toutes sortes de tablettes. L'iconographie met en valeur la beauté abstraite de l'écriture des Mésopotamiens, tout en les faisant revivre.
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It seems to have been invented in around 3200 BC at Uruk, as a bookkeeping tool. Temple accountants used a system of written signs, many of which were more or less realistic drawings, to keep track of rations of beer and bread, and to monitor flocks of sheep and goats. They would have had no idea of the incredible power of the tool they had just invented.
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Irving Finkel nous raconte les débuts de l'écriture et de la littérature.