
Noted
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
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The Clay Tablet of a Copper Merchant
Four thousand year old clay tablet written around 17 50 b c. Discovery had been made by a british archaeologist in the sumerian city of ur. Tablet writing, by the way, was no small feat. The letter writer had to make t tablet with clay and water. And while the tablet was still wet, the writer used a reed as a pen to inscribe the symbols on to the surface.
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