Hacker News with Generative AI: Mesopotamia

Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia, Ostrich in Ancient, Modern Times (1926) (publicdomainreview.org)
In the early 1920s, British archaeological excavator Ernest Mackay unearthed an egg at the Sumerian cemetery of Kish, in modern-day Iraq’s Babil Governate.
A data table thousands of years old (2020) (datafix.com.au)
I knew that data tables had been around a long time, but I didn't appreciate how long until I read recently about account-keeping in ancient Mesopotamia.
Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system (lithub.com)
In the middle of the fourth millennium before Christ, men and women could feed themselves and their families, much of the time, but almost nobody else. They did not yet have the wheel. They could fight, but they did not have the capacity to make war. They could not read or write, for there was no writing. Without writing, there was no history. There were stories but no literature.
Babylon's Mystery Goddess (historytoday.com)
Code of Hammurabi (wikipedia.org)