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it was so over, it is so over, and it will always be over š
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I so badly want a source for this.
Itās in the picture, just read the tablet
I read the tablet and it's more about the quality of copper ingots delivered than the general decline of civilization.
I don't know where the best quality copper ingots could be found in Ancient Mesopotamia, but I've definitely learned not to bother dealing with Ea-nÄį¹£ir!
Found Nanni's Lemmy account.
Thereās a lot of references to this, but it looks like thereās not a known source. Interestingly, the first reference to this tablet was from 1908. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/
So it's a fake story from 1908
It's annoying that they referenced several times the quote appeared since the early 1900s, but didn't take a single step to determine if such a thing was written down in a museum in Istanbul.