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[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They must have, otherwise that person wouldn't be so angry to have received the inferior stuff! They expected much better.

[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 10 points 2 weeks ago

Strictly speaking, and to take a joke way too seriously, the shitty copper actually wasn't even from Mesopotamia. Ea-Nasir was part of a guild that imported stuff from Dilmun, which was centred on modern day Bahrain. Ea-Nasir was basically running bronze age Temu