Great talk for those interested in clay tablets and technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_fkpZSnz2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_fkpZSnz2I In my o

Great talk for those interested in clay tablets and technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_fkpZSnz2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_fkpZSnz2I In my opinion, I would bet that those old civilizations had more technology that we give them credit for. The only thing they lacked was to have a long lasting medium to share that knowledge. Whimsical stories or songs could've been a way to share advances. We're lucky to have one civilization picking clay tablets as a medium and luckier that those survived (some even by accident - fires destroying houses but cooking those tablets and burying them), who knows maybe we were writing on leather for centuries before that have all disintegrated by now (we hunted, we had access to paint, we naturally don't want to waste scarce resources).