Earliest Books Emerge as Clay Tablets (jan 1, 3200 BC – jan 1, 75)

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In ancient Mesopotamia, clay tablets were written on with a stylus using a writing system called cuneiform. The writings were in Sumerian and Akkadian. Before the creation of title pages, the colophon served as a source of information about the work.

Galbraith, S. K. (2020). A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet (pp. 1–6). Bloomsbury Publishing.

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