Archaeologists came across a remarkable find while completing earthquake restoration work — a 15th-century BC Akkadian cuneiform tablet.
The tablet is inscribed with an administrative record, or receipt, sharing a large amount of furniture shopping.
The discovery was made in Aççana Höyük, known as Eski Alalah, in Turkey.
A cuneiform is a proper way of writing distinct from the alphabet, according to London’s British Museum.
“It doesn’t have ‘letters’ – instead it uses between 600 and 1,000 characters impressed on clay to spell words by dividing them up into syllables,” the museum’s website says.
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The relic measures 4.2 to 3.5 centimeters and is 1.6 centimeters in thickness, according to a press release from the Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey.
The clay-inscribed tablet is said …