Meet Kushim, the accountant from ancient Sumer | AccountingWEB
2024-07-29 15:08It's an accountant named Kushim. A fascinating article in National Geographic speaks of "a 5,000-year-old clay tablet found in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). It has dots, brackets, and little drawings carved on it and appears to record a business deal". The tablet seems to be a receipt for multiple shipments of barley.
The first recorded human was a Sumerian accountant named Kushim. He ...
As an individual, Kushim might have been, somewhat ironically, quite forgettable. He appears to have been so extraordinarily normal he may even have owned the world's first mass-produced item: a beveled-rim bowl, an item that archaeologists have found everywhere in Uruk and which, when filled with grain, seems to have been the ancient version ...
TIL the first person in history whose name we know is Kushim, an ...
Kushim contemplated the choices. Power and wealth are great, but what good is power without the glory of living forever in songs and stories? And surely one couldn't be remembered without being famous, and couldn't be famous without being rich - the creature must be lying. Kushim opened his mouth and spoke, "I choose to be remembered." "Very well."