4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
Mar 19, 2025
Smithsonian MagazineSonja Anderson
Dates were Mesopotamia’s original superfood, sweetener, travel snack, and even a ration tracked on clay tablets. 🌴🍯📜 #Mesopotamia #AncientHistory #DidYouKnow #Assyria | Assyria
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Dates were Mesopotamia’s original superfood, sweetener, travel snack, and even a ration tracked on clay tablets. 🌴🍯📜 #Mesopotamia #AncientHistory #DidYouKnow #Assyria | Assyria
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At least 3700 years old, the Yale Culinary Tablets are a collection of four clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, considered the oldest known written recipes in the world. Three of the tablets are dated to be from the Old Babylonian period, while the fourth is from the later Neo-Babylonian period. The best-preserved of them, tablet 'YBC 4644', contains 25 stew recipes, including meat and vegetarian varieties, written in Akkadian. Originally misidentified as medical texts in 1933, the tablets en
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At least 3700 years old, the Yale Culinary Tablets are a collection of four clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia, considered the oldest known written recipes in the world. Three of the tablets are dated to be from the Old Babylonian period, while the fourth is from the later Neo-Babylonian period. The best-preserved of them, tablet 'YBC 4644', contains 25 stew recipes, including meat and vegetarian varieties, written in Akkadian. Originally misidentified as medical texts in 1933, the tablets en
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