On November 12, eight students and two teachers from the
Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind visited Colorado College Special
Collections. They worked with 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablets and with a Hebrew
text on vellum (animal skin). Some of the students used magnifiers; others used
just their sense of touch. The students, who were in sixth, seventh, and eighth
grade, had recently made their own clay tablets; they were surprised at the small
size of the ones at CC.
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