File:The oldest writing in the world - The Sumerian Stone Tablet.jpg
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English: A Sumerian Stone Tablet containing a Locust Charm; unknown origin (p. 30). It was labelled in a 1907 book as "the oldest writing in the world".
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| Source | Scanned from Sacred Books of the East *Babylonia & Assyria* editorship by Prof. Charles F. Horne (copyright 1907), p. 34. Full text: http://www.billheidrick.com/Orpd/Sacr1917/Sacred_Books_1.pdf |
| Author | editorship by Prof. Charles F. Horne |
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| current | 00:45, 3 April 2019 | 1,280 × 960 (437 KB) | पाटलिपुत्र | Better scan |
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