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World's oldest customer complaint reveals business practices haven't changed in 4,000 years

Israel Hayom 08 Apr 2025
... engraving his grievances on a clay tablet. Today, this Bronze Age clay tablet is considered the oldest known customer complaint, and Nanni's complaint is the oldest and harshest among these records.
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Toy washing machine packed with drugs leads to arrest

The Daily Tribune - Bahrain 06 Apr 2025
A toy washing machine stuffed with clay and hiding 439 psychotropic ... Inside were small nylon packets filled with clay, concealing 439 tablets that tests later confirmed were psychotropic substances.
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The Enigmatic Sumerian Civilization and Its Extraordinary Advances

Greek Reporter 06 Apr 2025
Credit ... Mesopotamians are noted for developing one of the first written scripts around 3000 BC in the form of wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets ... Tablet XI of The Epic of Gilgamesh relates the exact same story a few centuries later.
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PSU Behrend researchers hope to break virtual reality world record. What they're planning

GoErie 04 Apr 2025
to 5 p.m ... The lab has used that equipment, along with VR/AR simulations "...to recreate fossils, militaria, and even a baked-clay cuneiform tablet, like those used by Sumerians to preserve astronomical texts," according to the release.
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Jiroft: The mysterious rival of Mesopotamia and the dawn of an ancient civilization

Sott 25 Mar 2025
The Twin Konar Sandal Mounds have emerged as a focal point for researchers, revealing clay and stone tablets inscribed with primitive characters believed to be precursors to the Elamite writing system.
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The Gold Trail of the Mycenaeans: Where Did Their Treasures Come From?

Greek Reporter 25 Mar 2025
Remarkable gold artifacts discovered within the Mycenaean citadel. Credit. Xuan Che / CC BY 2.0 ... Evidence from the 14th century BC—in the form of clay tablets called the Amarna letters—shows that Egyptian rulers exchanged gifts with foreign powers ... ....
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