THERE’S A STORY TO BE WRITTEN HERE: The kind of stuff a historical writer lives for! I’ll tuck it away for the right time.


In this week itself, we talked about how the analysis of 4000-year old tablets from the ancient mercantile city of Kanesh (or Kaneš), in what now constitutes the Kayseri province in central Turkey, possibly revealed the locations of 11 lost Assyrian cities. Well, as it turns out, one of the Cappadocian tablet specimens recovered from…


via The world’s oldest known marriage contract with infertility ‘clause’ is a 4000-year old Assyrian tablet — Realm of History



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Published on November 30, 2017 15:01
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