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Please remain on the line. You clay tablet is very important to us. Tablets will be answered in the order in which they were received.
The British Museum owns a baked clay tablet from the Mesopotamian city of Ur. It is a complaint about a delivery of copper. The response time may be a bit long.
-via Joe Stump
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Excellent suggestion! I am constantly recommending it to home schoolers.
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The BBC and the British Museum had a radio series called "A History of the World in 100 Objects" that may be of interest. One of the cuneiform tablets is featured: an invoice for beer allocations to a gang of workers, I think.
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