11. El origen de la escritura: PICTOGRAMAS ligados al comercio y a la agricultura. Los pictogramas son dibujos utilizados para simbolizar una palabra o una frase
12. Con el tiempo, los pictogramas van evolucionando y surge la escritura CUNEIFORME: “forma de cuña”
Persia, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon , sixth century BCE. Accounts indicate that the garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BCE, and that he built them to cheer up his homesick wife, Amyitis. Medes, the land she came from was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing, so the king decided to recreate her homeland by building an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens. The Hanging Gardens weren't actually "hanging", but instead were "overhanging" as in the case of a terrace or balcony . The Greek geographer Strabo, who described the gardens in first century BCE, wrote, "It consists of vaulted terraces raised one above another, and resting upon cubic pillars . These are hollow and filled with earth to allow trees of the largest size to be planted. The pillars, the vaults, and terraces are constructed of baked brick and asphalt. The ascent to the highest story is by stairs, and at their side are water engines, by means of which persons, appointed expressly for the purpose, are continually employed in raising water from the Euphrates into the garden." ( Another image .)
Codigo hamurabi
Tablette ecriture precuneiforme, louv
7. During the Akkad period, cuniform matured and ended its use of pictographs, and also it developed a grammer and individual perspective. Here is such a tablet with a message signed, "Your loving wife who has had a child."
Cilindro sello louv
Relief ur nanshe louv
Intendente mari, louv
Gudea louv
Estela naran sin librito mesopot
Estela de los butires de lagash librito mesopot
Relieve parietal de ninive, librito mesopot, deportacion de pueblos vencidos
Relieve parietal del palacio de Assurbanipal de Ninive
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