Interesting fact: several of the oldest writings ever found, dating from around 4000 BC, are Sumerian cuneiform, inscribed on stone tablets like this one. One of these ancient and nearly undecipherable tablets has recently been found to contain...
A recipe for making beer.
Most of the rest are tax records.
(There really is nothing new under the sun...)
What I'm curious about is: How did the customer know it was the wrong grade of copper? I can think of about 5 different ways to test the purity (grade) of copper and none of them would have been available in that time period.
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· 9 years ago
Maybe they had a more unconventional way. "I licked it and it wasn't strong enough. Get it right copper guy"
A recipe for making beer.
Most of the rest are tax records.
(There really is nothing new under the sun...)
Hungry side of me: is that a shredded wheat