It’s Old Stuff Day! Take a moment to enjoy the oldest item in our collection - a cuneiform

It’s Old Stuff Day! Take a moment to enjoy the oldest item in our collection - a cuneiform tablet from about 2,000 BCE. It was excavated from Umma in Mesopotamia and is written in Sumerian. (Pre-1650 MS 0218)

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