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the unfortunate reality of translating cuneiform (lemmy.ml)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Strictly speaking, and to take a joke way too seriously, the shitty copper actually wasn't even from Mesopotamia. Ea-Nasir was part of a guild that imported stuff from Dilmun, which was centred on modern day Bahrain. Ea-Nasir was basically running bronze age Temu

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