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A clay tablet is a thick piece of stone that humans inscribed messages upon. No paper or ink existed, and this was the most effective way to permanently record something.

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Who invented the clay tablet?

History does not record the name of the inventor of the clay tablet.


What is clay tablet?

A clay tablet is a thick piece of stone that humans inscribed messages upon. No paper or ink existed, and this was the most effective way to permanently record something.


Why was the oldest map drawn on a tablet of clay?

Paper had not been invented and clay was the only thing used.


Where tablet discover?

The first tablets were made of clay and used for writing in Sumeria.


What is the oldest prescription drug?

The oldest prescription drug was a clay tablet in the Middle East. The tablet was used sometime in the Third Millennium B.C. in Mesopotamia.


How would you fix a clay tablet in Mesopotamia?

I'm doing I'm doing I'm doing your mom


The oldest surviving love poem is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians inventors from what B.C?

4000 b.C.


What were three contributions made by the ancient peoples living in the fertile crescent and the mediterranean?

They Contributed is the Clay Tablet, Ziggurats, and Records


How do you write on clay tablets?

Clay tablets were typically written on using a stylus, a sharp instrument that would create impressions in the soft clay. The writer would press the stylus into the clay to form wedge-shaped characters, creating cuneiform script. Once the tablet dried and hardened, the writing would be preserved.


When was the first tablet invented?

Ancient apothecaries were the first to press their medical powders into tablets. However before this, in the 34th century BC, cuneiform writing was inscribed into clay tablets


How did they make the first clay tablet?

The first clay tablets were likely made by ancient civilizations by taking wet clay, shaping it into a flat surface, and then inscribing marks or symbols using a stylus or similar tool. After the inscriptions were made, the clay tablets would be dried or fired to harden them for preservation. These tablets were then used for writing, record-keeping, and communication.


How long have antiseptics been in use for?

Over 4,000 years - there is written evidence (On a clay tablet) that antiseptic type treatments were used in and before 2150BC.