Around 4,200 years ago, a Sumerian scribe residing in an area that now belongs to Iraq left behind a document for history. A tiny clay tablet, a little larger than a thumb, with six lines of cuneiform writing. The text has just been deciphered by archaeologists from the University of Cambridge. The journey of this amazing tablet has been crazy. “In the early years of the 20th century, the antiquities market was disastrously inundated with thousands of cuneiform tablets that had been torn out of their original context by all manner of thieves. These tablets were distributed all over the world, from Moscow to London or Chicago”, explains Professor Nicholas...