We’ve learned a great deal about ancient Mesopotamian civilizations from cuneiform writing: Babylonians dug pigeon stew, Sumerian king Urukagina tried to address social inequality, and poor customer service was already a problem 4,000 years ago.
And now we know that couples getting married then were concerned about being left childless.A group of researchers led by Harran University in Şanlıurfa, Turkey, examined a 4,000-year-old Assyrian tablet found at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Kültepe-Kaneshe, near the modern city of Kayseri. Once translated it was found to contain a marriage contract that makes the first known reference to infertility.
The contract, written in Old Assyrian and signed before four witnesses, stipulates…
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