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Ancient tablets shows all-night anti-witchcraft ritual and beer receipt
- Researchers decoded 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian tablets revealing an all-night anti-witchcraft ritual.
- The archive includes practical records like inventories and staff lists from an ancient administration.
- A beer receipt on a tablet provides a rare look at everyday commerce in Mesopotamia.
- Cuneiform tablets from Hama and other sites illuminate medicine, magic, and kingship.
- The discoveries come from Denmark’s National Museum storage, digitized under a University-led initiative.
- Scholars link Gilgamesh references to possible historical roots in the royal lineage.
- The material dates back almost 3,000 years to the late third millennium BC.
- Researchers digitized the tablets as part of Copenhagen's Hidden Treasures program.
- The findings span both magical rites and ordinary administrative life in ancient Mesopotamia.
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