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  2025 March 28

Cuneiform
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 Sometimes when I post standup on Fridays, I include a fun fact. Today's really excites me, so I wanted to share it out here too.

  Cuneiform is an ancient script used to write down 7+ languages. Humanity's biggest trove of cuneiform tablets was preserved because [the world's first known library](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Ashurbanipal) was burned down by enemies, inadvertently baking the clay.

That library is so cool. When it was established around 650BC, it was to preserve clay tablets that were then already ~2000 years old!!!!

Source: [this episode of You're Dead to Me](https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m0028987)

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