Washington, Oct 14: Researchers have discovered clues to a lost code in clay balls from Mesopotamia, which was used to keep records, about 200 years before writing was invented.
Christopher Woods, a professor at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, said that the clay balls could represent the world's "very first data storage system," the Huffington Post reported.
The balls, which are often called "envelopes", were sealed and contain tokens in a variety of geometric shapes - the balls varying from golf ball-size to baseball-size.
High-resolution Ct scans and 3D modeling were used by the researchers to look inside more than 20 examples excavated at the site of Choga Mish, in western Iran, in the late 1960s..
Christopher Woods, a professor at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, said that the clay balls could represent the world's "very first data storage system," the Huffington Post reported.
The balls, which are often called "envelopes", were sealed and contain tokens in a variety of geometric shapes - the balls varying from golf ball-size to baseball-size.
High-resolution Ct scans and 3D modeling were used by the researchers to look inside more than 20 examples excavated at the site of Choga Mish, in western Iran, in the late 1960s..
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