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jan 1, 2400 BC - Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)

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In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen).

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jan 1, 2400 BC
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~ 4429 years ago

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