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1700 BC

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1700 BC

c. 1700 BCAssyria [tools]The doors in the palace of Khorsabad in Nineveh, Assyria, are sealed with a device consisting of a pin-tumbler, a large wooden bolt pierced by several holes, and several wooden pins positioned to drop into these holes and grip the bolt – the first lock.


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Fascinating, too, as you'll gather from the book, is the history of the poem itself, which exists, after the early Sumerian fragments, in the Babylonian-language "old version" of 1700 BC.
Once in Babylon: the flood, immortality, sex--it's all here by Simon, John / The Weekly Standard
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