When you or someone you are caring for is seriously ill, it is recommend that you keep EOBs for five years after the illness or condition is alleviated. If you or the patient is claiming or has claimed a medical deduction, keep the explanation of benefits for seven years.
The earliest writing can be traced to Sumer, in Mesopotamia. This system did not use an alphabet, instead it used pictographs which are symbols representing familiar objects. This type of writing was called cuneiform, or wedge-shaped writing. Egyptians used hieroglyphics, also a pictograph system.
As time went by, the clever Sumerians invented things they needed - like the wheel, the sailboat, and the first written language. They also invented frying pans, razors, kilns to cook bricks and pottery, bronze hand tools, the plow, the plow seeder, cosmetics, and cylinder seals. The Sumerians were a very clever people. What was Babylon?