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minus-squarestarik@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up44·3 days ago“How should we display these priceless ancient clay tablets?” “Just throw them in that bowl over there.”
minus-squaregmtom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoI think tablets like these are actually extremely common. I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.
minus-squarestarik@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoYou’re right. You can buy them on eBay for like $1000. Apparently ISIS does illegal excavations and sell the artifacts, and these are a common item.
minus-squareRagingRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·3 days agoIt seems like they would rub together and get messed up
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoI don’t think anyone’s going around shaking the basket
minus-squareseraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days agogoes around shaking the basket
“How should we display these priceless ancient clay tablets?”
“Just throw them in that bowl over there.”
I think tablets like these are actually extremely common.
I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.
You’re right. You can buy them on eBay for like $1000. Apparently ISIS does illegal excavations and sell the artifacts, and these are a common item.
It seems like they would rub together and get messed up
I don’t think anyone’s going around shaking the basket
goes around shaking the basket
>:o