- Four thousand years ago, a government bureaucrat in Mesopotamia jotted down a tally of slave laborers on a clay tablet. The bureaucrat left behind the count in wedge-shaped symbols that proved hard to fully decipher with the naked eye. Until now….

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Mesopotamia – Slavery – Clay tablet – History – United States

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Digitized inscriptions reveal ancient messages