Author: Apiladey ApilSin
Date: Oct 26, 2002 - 00:53

The next time you go in for a haircut, think about what the job would be like before the invention of scissors. Obviously the guy HAD to be good with a VERY sharp knife. Without realizing that, I would never have connected those two careers. The Assyrian word for the surgeon's knife, naglabu, could also be written with three signs that originally meant "knife [of] barber". Although the Sumerian pictograms aren't completely understood, one of the symbols for this word seems to represent a barber's hand.