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World's first angry customer: How, nearly 4,000 years ago, a man complained about poor-quality copper on a clay tablet and created history's oldest customer complaintWorld's first angry customer: A 4,000-year-old clay tablet is believed to record the world's oldest known customer complaint from ancient M...- In 1887, an Egyptian woman dug for fertilizer in the ruins of Amarna and uncovered the lost diplomatic network of the Bronze AgeWhile searching for fertilizer in 1887, an Egyptian woman made a startling discovery: baked clay tablets that would come to be known as the...
- 2,800-yr-old Assyrian stone tablet unveiled at Iraqi museumThe tablet was recently returned by Italy to the Iraqi government. It bears the insignia of Shalmaneser III, the Assyrian king who ruled th...
- Evolution of writing: From Mesopotamians to ChatGPT, humans have always adapted to new technologyStudying the past can deepen our understanding of how humans have adapted to modern technology.
- ChatGPT is confronting, but humans have always adapted to new technologyWhile ChatGPT threatens to change writing (and writing-related work) as we know it, the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago (in a geog...
- A menu with memories: Remembering the departed through their favourite foodWhen many mourners gather, often from far, they get hungry. Since the immediate family may be too grief-stricken to cook, food is brought b...
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