Iran has discovered the oldest "stick" created 5.5 thousand years ago

Ancient objects, which are used to store info for two hundred years before the invention of the humanity of writing, found inside clay balls that found in Iran.
Balls created close to 5.5 thousand years ago, at a time when Mesopotamia flourished in the early city, and can be used to record business transactions.
Christopher woods, a Professor from the University of East Institute of Chicago, reported that the sphere represents the world's first data storage system.





Balls that are called "envelopes", is a hollow sphere, inside which contain different geometric shapes or coins. "These envelopes are the earliest known — at least known to us — the efforts of people who serve for the preservation of data. Moreover, they can be ancient witness accounts of literacy," says Professor woods.



The experts used CT scans and 3D modeling to look inside more than twenty balls which are found in the area of Choga Mish, in the West of Iran in the late 1960s.

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