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Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [7]
This clay tablet was illegally excavated. The precise provenance of the excavation is unknown, but probably from Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. It is currently housed in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.
![Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [2]](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7098.jpg?v=1599475502)
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Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [2]
This clay tablet was illegally excavated. The precise provenance of the excavation is unknown, but probably from Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. It is currently housed in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.
![Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [8]](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7091.jpg?v=1618722903)
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Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [8]
This clay tablet was illegally excavated. The precise provenance of the excavation is unknown, but probably from Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. It is currently housed in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.
![Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [9]](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7102.jpg?v=1599475503)
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Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [9]
This clay tablet was illegally excavated. The precise provenance of the excavation is unknown, but probably from Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. It is currently housed in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Side View, Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet
This clay tablet was illegally excavated. The precise provenance of the excavation is unknown, but probably from Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. It is currently housed in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.
![Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [4]](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7099.jpg?v=1599475502)
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Illegally Excavated Mesopotamian Clay Tablet [4]
This clay tablet was illegally excavated. The precise provenance of the excavation is unknown, but probably from Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. It is currently housed in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.

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A Clay Tablet with its Envelope
A commercial letter (clay tablet) enclosed by an envelope (a clay covering). The letter was supposed to be opened by the recipient. 2nd millennium BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).

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Early Elamite Clay Tablet with Numerical Signs from Southern Iran
Early Elamite clay tablet with numerical signs found in Tappeh Yahya, Kerman, dating to c. 3100 to 2900 BCE (Yahya Period IVc). National Museum of Iran, Tehran, inv. no. 4065. Photo by Nima Fakoorzadeh (Baloot Noghrei) Tappeh Yahya in...

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Geometric-Algebraic Theory Clay Tablet from Tell al-Dhabba'i
This clay tablet narrates a geometric-algebraic theory of how to make a solution for a mathematical problem. The conclusion applies a theory very similar to the Pythagorean theorem. From Tell Tell al-Dhabba'i, Iraq. Old-Babylonian period...

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Linear B Clay Tablet
Example of a Linear B clay tablet found at Knossos. It records quantities of oil apparently offered to various deities.