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Anthropology

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7. Ironically, the clay tablets survived where paper/papyrus cannot. While earthquakes shatter clay, fire hardens the clay

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 11:32 AM

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Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth [View all] Judi Lynn Tuesday OP

Very funny! Hekate Tuesday #13

Echoes of Persephone alittlelark Tuesday #2

Very interesting, I have never heard the tale alittlelark Tuesday #10

I'm gonna have to dive into that soon alittlelark Tuesday #14

She needs to go to Crete and try to decipher the Baitball Blogger Tuesday #3

Cretan Linear A, too Zorro Tuesday #4

If I had access to AI tools, that would be the first thing I would do. Baitball Blogger Tuesday #6

I bet the fox completed its misson nuxvomica Tuesday #5