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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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We went to the museum a few days ago, mostly for the robot dinosaurs, but I liked the ancient section where they had the stone floor of a temple with cuneiform writing on it. I'm aware that most of such writing was done by pressing into clay - but it wasn't all.
Anyway, my point was that technologies move on. Well-made things using older technologies are great, but that doesn't mean that we should continue to use them for new.