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This article discusses the concept of record-keeping in the ancient world and how it varied between different societies. It also discusses the importance of archival documents and how they can help historians learn more about ancient civilizations.
This interdisciplinary study offers a systematic approach to ancient archival documents from the Near East, the Mycenean world, and classical Greece. The contributions aim to achieve a richer understanding of archival documents--by addressing questions of formal aspects of creating, writing, and storing ancient documents--and to discover how concepts of record-keeping were adapted by different ancient societies in the ancient world.
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