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3000 years ago, a king found a cool rock and engraved it with a picture of himself handing it to his young daughter with the caption “I gave this cool rock to my beloved daughter, Bar-Uli”

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https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologist-find-decipher-ancient-tablet-shopping-list-1929761

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alalakh

Headline:

Researchers Decipher Cuneiform Tablet—and Discover It’s a Furniture Receipt