[polemikos]

Just think of the royalty payments that are due...

[longtermmemmory]

this stuff goes on all the time. Face it, there are very few ancient history "innovations".

Next year, it will be revealed the ancient egyptians stole the idea of burial pyramids from the "fill in blank"

Given our societies propensity for computer storage, imagine what will be left in 5000 years. Even assuming nothing is blown to bits not much.

Reminds me of an old book called the "cantocal of Lebowitz" (forgive the spelling) following a nuclear war only one holy document survives. Turns out to be some slubs grocery shopping list. But the whole worlds religion becomes based on it.

[SunkenCiv]

A Blast from the Past, 2003. Somehow or other it had never been found -- before now!

Thanks Blam.

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[RightWhale]

They had to have a word for zero even if they lacked a symbol since the numbers were used by commerce and the books had to balance, i.e., zero out. The Roman numerals were also Greek letter symbols, the ones they didn't use in Latin.