Ancient cuneiform tablet unearthed in Turkey reveals 3,500-year-old shopping list

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1. * Milk
   * Eggs
   * Less shit copper

2. Wife: “Don’t forget to pick up milk.”

   Me: *pulls out mallet and chisel*

3. > A wife asks her husband, a programmer, “Could you please go shopping for me and buy one carton of milk, and if they have eggs, get 6?”

   > A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk and his wife asks, “Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?”

   > He replies, “They had eggs.”

4. Looks like it isn’t really a shopping list. It’s a record of things that were already purchased.

   >the text provides an administrative record of extensive furniture purchases, including wooden tables, chairs, and stools.

5. Even then it would be talking about inflation 

6. They already had tablets?

7. It’s always amazing to realize that people had similarly mundane things to worry about 3500 years ago, too.

8. Went out for cigs…