[SunkenCiv]

Tablet inscribed with the extinct Akkadian language, Eski Alalah or Aççana Mound, Alalah, Turkey

Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism |

[ConservativeMind]

You wouldn’t leave that in your pockets, by accident.

[ComputerGuy]

Somewhere there’s a corresponding tablet that records when she sent the stuff back.

[silent majority rising]

What was a good wooden chair going for back then?

[HYPOCRACY]

They’re gonna change their name again to Tirkea.

[exPBRrat]

‘Nothing new under the sun.’

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks, SunkenCiv.

[bgill]

Link that doesn’t freak over firewalls.

https://www.gbnews.com/science/archaeologists-discover-sales-receipt-turkey

[outofsalt]

It was a recliner. Some of those go way back.

[FrankRizzo890]

20 posts and not this one, I am ashamed.

“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”

[Billthedrill]

If it was the Akkadian equivalent of Ikea assembly instructions, no wonder their civilization fell.

[fella]

Now that’s a sales receipt.

[Ezekiel]

The scribe recorded information about the sellers and buyers..

What about the ambulance chasers who were driving a wedge?

That kind of information certainly dovetails.

One sliver and somebody wood have a lawsuit on their hands.

Might explain the demand for small clays courts.

I'll let myself out..