Hear the World’s Oldest Identified Track, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years In the past

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Do you want previous timey music? Splen­did. You possibly can’t get extra previous timey than Hur­ri­an Hymn No. 6, which was dis­cov­ered on a clay pill within the historic Syr­i­an port metropolis of Ugar­it within the Nineteen Fifties, and is over 3400 years previous. Actu­al­ly, you may — a sim­i­lar pill, which ref­er­ences a hymn…

Behold the Oldest Written Textual content within the World: The Kish Pill, Circa 3500 BC

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Picture by José-Manuel Ben­i­to, through Wiki­me­dia Com­mons Some check with the writ­ten Chi­nese lan­guage as ideo­graph­ic: that’s, struc­tured accord­ing to a sys­tem wherein every sym­bol rep­re­sents a par­tic­u­lar concept or con­cept, whether or not summary or con­crete. That’s true of cer­tain Chi­nese char­ac­ters, however solely a small minor­i­ty. Most of them are actu­al­ly logographs, every…