Reconstructed by the Iraq Dept. of Antiquities the (small) temple of Tell Harmel which is about 2100 before Christ must have been flourishing university town. In the houses near the temple many hundreds of clay tablets have been found, the most famous the tablet with the laws of Eshnuna (a king) regulating economy, family life, criminal offenses, etc. Second important tablet (all in cunei, or wedge-shaped writing) is the tablet with the geometric problem known as the Euclid theorem to us, which the Summerians knew already and had worked out some 1500 years before the Greek
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Reconstructed by the Iraq Dept. of Antiquities the (small) temple of Tell Harmel which is about 2100 before Christ must have been flourishing university town. In the houses near the temple many hundreds of clay tablets have been found, the most famous the tablet with the laws of Eshnuna (a king) regulating economy, family life, criminal offenses, etc. Second important tablet (all in cunei, or wedge-shaped writing) is the tablet with the geometric problem known as the Euclid theorem to us, which the Summerians knew already and had worked out some 1500 years before the Greek. Vertically stepped maze of walls with a child in the background
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