But that said, my understanding, very likely wrong, was that those were mostly tax records and other lists - which don't fire my imagination in quite the same way as works of philosophy and literature snatched (almost literally) from the flames of history.
Now, why should I be more interested in the mesopotamian tablets? (Not sarcasm, I'm interested)
But that said, my understanding, very likely wrong, was that those were mostly tax records and other lists - which don't fire my imagination in quite the same way as works of philosophy and literature snatched (almost literally) from the flames of history.
Now, why should I be more interested in the mesopotamian tablets? (Not sarcasm, I'm interested)