The worlds first Temple

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Gate of Xerxes, at Persepolis
 
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In ancient Mesopotamia, children who were to become scribes would practice writing by impressing repeated cuneiform characters on clay.
This tablet (aka "first day of school" tablet) depicts the single vertical wedge symbol repeated over and over across its surface.

This is an unbaked tablet. Excavations at Nippur during the late 19th century recovered thousands of this type pf tablet from scribal schoolrooms dating to ca. 1730 BCE.
 
Our 14,400-Year-Old Relationship with Bread

We know that bread is a part of our culinary history. It has been found in Neolithic sites throughout Europe and southwest Asia. The prior oldest sample is from Anatolia, Turkey and dates to 9,500 years ago. Everything that has been previously found dates firmly within the agricultural revolution. And that is logical. Making bread is work, after all: you have to cultivate, harvest, dehusk, and grind the cereal grains, and then knead and bake the dough which necessitates the building of a fireplace or oven. This requires time and commitment. But that doesn’t mean it was impossible prior to the rise of agriculture.
 
"First, you must know the days on which to use the Oracle; second, you must pray and speak the incantation of the god and pray inwardly for what you want; third, you must take the dice and throw it three times.’ (translated by P. J. Parsons)

The sequence of the three numbers obtained allows one to identify a corresponding Homeric verse, which would be introduced by the same sequence. For example, if one gets 4, 6, 3, the sequence 463 corresponds to Odyssey XX 18:

Have courage, heart. You have endured far worse."

Fortune-telling the ancient way

Greek 12 sided die

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Greek letters used as numbers.
 
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