This week, Anna and Amber take a tour of some of the libraries of the ancient world. We visit Mesopotamia for the origins of writing and the heartland of administrative paperwork, hit up Africa for the oral traditions of the Griots, browse the stacks of oracle bones in China, and...yes, talk about the Library of Alexandria.
Links
Archives and Bookkeeping in Southern Mesopotamia during the Ur III period (Comptabilités)
OIP 92. Persepolis Fortification Tablets (Oriental Institute Publications)
The Library of Alexandria Is Long-Gone – And All Around Us (Daily Beast)
The Life and Death of the Library of Alexandria (Literary Hub)
Maya codices: invaluable cultural heritage burned by the Inquisition in 1562 (Yucatan Times)
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