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[โ€“] Klear@quokk.au 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait until this guy learns how people used to send letters instead of emails and that paper was used instead of word.

[โ€“] FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 14 points 3 days ago

During the period this tablet was made, letters were also written in clay. My favorite part of this is clay envelopes were also made for documents, and they sometimes contained similar information that we place on envelopes now. Other times they had a condensed version of the document instead

An Old Assyrian (circa 1800BCE) clay tablet partly encased in a clay envelope