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Who invented writing?

Born as accounting on Sumerian clay, writing outlived every king it served — and turned memory into the first hard drive of civilization.

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It began as a receipt. Five thousand years ago, in the temples of Sumer, someone pressed a reed into wet clay to record a debt of grain — and invented the most powerful technology in history.

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