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.

Archaeology, History, Mesopotamia, Ancient History, Ostriches

12 points by crescit_eundo 22 days ago | 0 comments

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.

History, Data, Mesopotamia

256 points by rickcarlino 103 days ago | 108 comments

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.

Ancient History, Writing Systems, Mesopotamia

164 points by HR01 128 days ago | 188 comments

Babylon's Mystery Goddess (historytoday.com)

History, Ancient History, Mythology, Mesopotamia

73 points by diodorus 286 days ago | 15 comments

Code of Hammurabi (wikipedia.org)

Ancient History, Law, Mesopotamia

30 points by simonebrunozzi 299 days ago | 13 comments