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Cunei form also had moveable type. Afaik most was still handwritten though. There are hundreds of thousands yet untranslated cunei form tablets in museums and m
by xaedes 8y ago
Cunei form also had moveable type. Afaik most was still handwritten though.
There are hundreds of thousands yet untranslated cunei form tablets in museums and maybe many more that never made it through time.
From "Moveable type" wikipedia:
"Seals and stamps may have been precursors to movable type. The uneven spacing of the impressions on brick stamps found in the Mesopotamian cities of Uruk and Larsa, dating from the 2nd millennium BC, has been conjectured by some archaeologists as evidence that the stamps were made using movable type."
Just to provide some perspective