Centuries before Vitruvius formalized Western architecture, builders in southern Mesopotamia were drafting proportional floor plans into wet clay with remarkable geometric rigor. A Neo-Sumerian tablet dating to the Ur III period (c. 2100–2000 BC) offers a precise window into ancient engineering, serving not as a rough sketch, but as a scaled architectural schematic with explicit wall dimensions and spatial allocations.
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