Sitting out in the sun, I dreamed of people and places far in the past. I thought of the rise and fall of civilizations and the great advances in science and technology. How the arts and music have enriched the lives of people all over the world. The immense achievements of humanity since the rise of Sumer are astounding and a credit to the originality of human thought. It is this thought and a system of recorded writing that has enabled us to learn from our predecessors. Instead of our wisest people losing the information they have gleaned over a lifetime, their recorded thoughts live on and enrich the lives of future generations. We owe a great debt to the invention of writing. It is one of the finest achievements of the human race.
Summerian
pictographs on clay tablets
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