Scribes in Mesopotamia

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Video

Joshua J. Mark
by The Oriental Institute
published on 13 January 2023

Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages Theo van den Hout tells us about who scribes in Mesopotamia and Anatolia were.

This video was made for the Oriental Institute Museum special exhibit "Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East" which runs from September 28, 2010 through March 6, 2011.

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Institute, T. O. (2023, January 13). Scribes in Mesopotamia. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/video/2888/scribes-in-mesopotamia/

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Institute, The Oriental. "Scribes in Mesopotamia." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified January 13, 2023. https://www.worldhistory.org/video/2888/scribes-in-mesopotamia/.

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