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there we go again
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>The tablets, which are being sent to the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, date from the middle of the reign of Darius I, 509 B.C. to 494 B.C., and document such details as barley and beer rations for average laborers and the origin of workers from the far-flung Persian empire.
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>Tablet expert Charles Jones said the tablets functioned much like credit card receipts and have yielded "an incredibly rich amount of information." They showed workers came from distant lands ranging from modern-day Egypt to India.
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...it defies the odds that of all the thousands of tablets found, the majority would be "boring business documents", or in this case..a list of where workers came from.

...You get the picture of a society that was mostly mundane, recording numbers of sheep bought, workers hired, bushels of wheat grown, contracts and shopping lists, inventories...that then limited itself to either only a few flashes of brilliance or had none to record. But then how do you account for the magnificence of the few records of cultural genius they bothered to commit to writing? Or wrote?

It`s like sifting through Einstein`s collected writings and finding only his electric bills and laundry lists. Given what we know of the man, you`d expect that if he bothered at all to jot those things down, he spent more time on other things he also would have committed to writing.

...Just doesn`t make sense.



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