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15 Clay Tablets From Ur Reveal Unknown Places, an Ancient Princess Whose Farm Ran on Its Own Rules, and a Village Inhabited by Prisoners of War

Each of these tablets fits in the palm of a hand. The smallest measures a little over 3 centimetres (1.3 inches) across and the largest 11.5 (4.5 inches), and nearly all of them deal with the least glamorous things a museum can hold: sacks of barley, daily wages, the size of ditches. Read together, though, […]

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