Cuneiform

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 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