Controversial Cuneiform Tablets Tell Tales of Security Dogs and a Lost City

www.ancient-origins.net ^ | 8 January, 2020 - 16:58 | Ashley Cowie

[DannyTN]

When dogs write cuneiform

[z3n]

When dogs write cuneiform

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Wouldn’t that be canine-iform?

Also, if doges did write, the claw scratching might look something like that... :o

[DannyTN]

Could have been cundogs!

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!...................

[proust]

Are they sure they weren’t emotional support dogs?

[gundog]

[DannyTN]

[DannyTN]

That ain’t right!!!

[DannyTN]

[DannyTN]

I’m sorry, your thread and lost and gone to the dogs.
I take partial responsibility.

[Red Badger]

It’s been grave robbed!.....................

[z3n]

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hmmmm....

[4Liberty]

[CondorFlight]

I read once that there are estimated to be about 500,000 potential archaeological sites in Iraq; and that in the past 150 years, we have excavated 25,000 of them.

At this rate, we’ll never get to them all, so as far as I’m concerned, I don’t care if thieves grab the stuff, so long as it is made public later (and I don’t care how).

[Adder]

So: these tablets came from a city no one knows, looted in the night. And no one can figure out where that might be?
That sounds fishy.

So the museum was fined 3 million...by whom? Did they get to keep the tablets? seems like the inference is yes.

Could it be they saved these from being destroyed by some self hating fanatics? Just askin...

[EEGator]

RACIST!

[dsrtsage]

At the bottom, you can faintly see “Trumps Fault”

[BipolarBob]

I thought they were apes and it was the lost city of Zinj.

[SunkenCiv]

I'm glad Hobby Lobby's Steve Green bought these artifacts, which had already been looted and were floating around the black market -- else they'd have been dumped or used to build some classic hovel in some middle east hell-hole. Thanks Red Badger (topic and ping) and DannyTN (ping).

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