It’s Mind blowing that we are closer to when this tablet was made than it is to when writing started
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)
Even in the ancient world, people bought derelict properties to renovate or tear down.
A man named Mushezib-Marduk bought a ruined house in the Eanna district of Uruk in 669 BCE. It's in the same neighbourhood where writing was first developed almost three millennia earlier.
A man named Mushezib-Marduk bought a ruined house in the Eanna district of Uruk in 669 BCE. It's in the same neighbourhood where writing was first developed almost three millennia earlier.
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