Posted by Jeff from d53-152-230.try.wideopenwest.com (64.53.230.152) on Thursday, April 17, 2003 at 5:05PM :
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" Among the items destroyed were 80,000 cuneiform tablets, the pictographic writing scratched onto wet clay tablets with a reed pen and then hardened, said Gibson. National archives containing thousands of manuscripts were torched. "
...these were destroyed this week.
-- Jeff
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