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The World's First Dictionary: A Mesopotamian Legacy

The earliest known dictionary in history comes from Mesopotamia.

The artifact before you is the oldest bilingual dictionary, consisting of 24 cuneiform tablets.

It features word lists in Sumerian alongside their Akkadian equivalents, providing a linguistic bridge between these two ancient languages.

These tablets are part of the renowned Ebla archive, a treasure trove of Mesopotamian knowledge.

By 2500 B.C., Sumerian scribes had developed a writing system with around 800 cuneiform signs, allowing them to document myths, fables, essays, hymns, proverbs, epic poetry, laws, medical texts, and even astronomical observations.

Today, this remarkable dictionary is housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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Les chimères de Notre-Dame s’invitent à la Conciergerie !

Pour les Journées Européennes des Métiers d'Art, la Conciergerie accueille nos artisans, à la demande de le Centre des monuments nationaux, pour dévoiler les coulisses d’un projet unique : la reproduction de trois célèbres chimères de Notre-Dame.

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A son took his old father to a restaurant for an evening dinner. Father, being very old and weak, while eating, dropped food on his shirt and trousers. Other diners watched him in disgust, while his son was calm.

After he finished eating, his son, who was not at all embarrassed, quietly took him to the washroom, wiped the food particles, removed the stains, and combed his hair.

When they came out, the entire restaurant was watching them in dead silence, not able to grasp how someone could embarrass themselves publicly like that. The son settled the bill and started walking out with his father.

At that time, an old man amongst the diners called out to the son and asked him, “Don’t you think you have left something behind?”.

The son replied, "No, sir, I haven't."

The old man retorted, “Yes, you have! “You left a lesson for every son and hope for every father.”

The restaurant went silent.

One of the biggest honors that exists is being able to take care of our fathers and mothers who have cared for us, and all those elderly people who sacrificed their lives with their blood, sweat, tears, time, money, and effort deserve our utmost respect.