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writing in early mesopotamia project
The Writing in Early Mesopotamia (WEM) project endeavors to provide a comprehensive description of how the technology of cuneiform writing represented language. The project will investigate early cuneiform writing from the perspective of both language — how sound and meaning are systematically expressed diachronically and synchronically — and semiotics — the graphic organization and history of ...
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Many medical and therapeutic cuneiform texts have been recovered from sites in ancient Mesopotamia, but no specifically surgical text has yet been found. Although it is possible that surgical texts may be found in the future, it is rather unlikely. Their absence cannot be taken as proof that the ancient Mesopotamians did not practise surgery; it is probable that surgical techniques were handed ...
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Sophisticated computation methods were developed 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia in the context of scribal schools. The basics of the computation can be detected in clay tablets written by young students educated in these scribal schools. At first glance, the mathematical exercises contained in school tablets seem to be very simple and quite familiar, and therefore, they have little attracted the...
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I put medicine first, not because of any personal predilections, but because during my short stay in Mesopotamia the surgical cases were " snowed under " by cases of sickness. Not only so, but most surgical cases presented evidence sooner or later of non-surgical disease. It may be well to look first in a general way at the principal causes of this heavy incidence of sickness and disease.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1956
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/178609b0