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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
I always liked cuneiform writing in stone. It has a tactile quality, a permanence, that you just don't get with papyrus. How much papyrus is there going to be left around when the new temples are as old as the old ones are now?
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Er, cuneiform is actually written on clay tablets, not stone. You write it with a wedge-shaped reed stylus (hence the name, from Latin "cuneus" - "wedge") pressed into the wet clay.