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Mesopotamia
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Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like without it.
Writing as I would define it serves to record language by means of an agreed set of symbols that enable a message to be played back like a wax cylinder recording.
The reader's eye runs over the signs and tells the brain how each is pronounced and the inner message springs into life.
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― The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
― The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
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Another point of interest about the Tiahuanaco [in Bolivia] monoliths is that their garments from the waist down are patterned in the form of fish scales. Here, too, is a parallel to the Apkallus--the bearded, "fish-garbed figures" who brought high civilization to Mesopotamia [...]. Nor is it as though bearded figures are missing from the repertoire of Tiahuanaco. Two have survived, and one on the pillar in the semi-subterranean temple has been identified since time immemorial with the great civ
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― Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
― Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
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