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Reproduction of Iraq’s Ancient Clay Tablets
Comments Off on Reproduction of Iraq’s Ancient Clay TabletsA technology usually used in remaking surgery to generate prosthetic limbs is actually now being used to make reproductions of Iraq’s valuable and delicate cuneiform clay tablets, according to an Italian team of researchers. Thousands and thousands of pieces were nearly stolen and busted at Bagdad’s museums during the attack of Iraq in 2003, in […]