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We also know that during a ceremony - probably the enthronement of a new king called Augeias - they threw a crazy feast. An entire cow, twenty-six rams, six sheep, four goats, and seven pigs. All together over two tons of meat. Not to mention the thousands of kilos of fruit and vegetables, honey and wine!

At the time, scribes used to write on unbaked clay shaped either like a leave or a page. The tablets were then classified by subject in wicker or wooden boxes, and archived. When the season ended and a new cycle of accounts, etc., began, they would take the pieces of clay - the tablets, as we call them - and use water to soften and reuse them.