This story is not true, yet it's still compelling...
Southern Iraq (AP) -- Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the first blog created by ancient man.
Uncovered in what is now southern Iraq and what was once the holy city of Nippur, clay tablet entries written by a citizen named Dubsar, a working class Cuneiform Scribe, show daily life in the city in a way that archeologists could never before fathom.
"What is truly astounding," said Peter Trummel of Boston University's Archeology Department, "is how much information Dubsar is able to give us about the life of the Sumerians. Here we've been guessing and arguing for years about the people who created the world's first written language and now we have hundreds of documents pertaining to life during those times. What they thought, what they believed, how they reacted to the world around them... It's one of the most important Mesopotamian finds to date."
Leave a comment