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So, you guys remember good old Ea-Nasir? The copper...
So, you guys remember good old Ea-Nasir? The copper merchant from ancient Mesopotamia who kept stiffing his customers out of their money and copper, and then kept their complaint letters stored in a room in his house, to be found by archaeologists thousands of years later?
Well, I recently learned something that makes that story even better. Most clay tablets from that time period were made of unfired clay, which means that they degraded over time, getting washed away by weather and such. Some of the fired tablets were fired on purpose, but others were fired accidentally when the building they were stored in were burnt down.
That means that in this case there are three options. (1) The tablets in Ea-Nasir’s house were unfired and just really randomly lucky to survive. (2) Ea-Nasir’s house was burnt down, likely by someone he owed money to. (3) Ea-Nasir not only kept a bunch of complaint letters in his house, but fired them to preserve them.
The drama of Ea-Nasir is more compelling than pretty much all of the MCU
*laminates all my anon hate*
