Education, ancient Near East

Throughout ancient Near Eastern history, apprentice scribes must have received their education in schools, where they learned the writing and reading skills they needed for their future professions. Curiously, though, most of the archaeological and textual evidence for scribal education comes from the Old Babylonian era of the early second millennium BCE . Although no structures can be certainly identified as schools, at many sites archaeologists have found exercise tablets written by students. Round, bun‐shaped tablets often feature a few lines of a teacher's handwriting on one side, copied on the other in the large, awkward script of a young student. Some of the more advanced writing exercises feature stories about life at school.

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• How Did They Learn Sumerian

  H L J Vanstiphout•Journal of Cuneiform Studies•1979

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