Ancient Sumerian Copper Dagger Blade from 3000 B.C. This is a weapon made over 5000 years ago by the first civilization to work with metal, Examples of Sumerian technology include: the wheel, cuneiform, arithmetic and geometry, irrigation systems, sailboats, lunisolar calendar, bronze, leather, saws, chisels, hammers, braces, bits, nails, pins, rings, hoes, axes, knives, lancepoints, arrowheads, swords, glue, daggers, waterskins, bags, harnesses, armor, quivers, scabbards, boots, sandal (footwear), harpoons, and beer. The Sumerians had three main types of boats: skin boats comprising of animal skins and reeds clinker-built sailboats stitched together with hair, featuring bitumen waterproofing wooden-oared ships, sometimes pulled upstream by people and animals walking along the nearby banks
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:26:51 +0000
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