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Ancient book publishing tech: notary seals and stamps are 5 millennia old! Most people think Gutenberg invented book publishing. In reality, he made mass production of books very economical, but he didn’t inventing book printing. It is a much older technology. This is a replica of the Nabonidus Cylinder in the British Museum Collection in London, UK. It is an ancient Babylonian historic text from around 540BC that references Belshezzar, a historical figure is also mentioned in the Book of Daniel of the Bible. There are older examples of cylindrical seals going back to 3500BC.
Cylinder stamps were invented in Middle East more than 5,000 years ago. The stamps provided a way of reproducing cuneiform text by rolling the cylinders over wet clay. So where are we going with all of this?
We promised to connect Carl Sagan with conquistadors, and we left off with astrolabes and voting machines. Now we have cuneiform cylinders, Biblical figures, and ancient multi-copy texts. So far in our photo posts, there are still no connection to conquistadors. Still no connection to Carl Sagan. Stay tuned, more soon….
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