Iraq: displays 2,800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy

Italian authorities handed over the ancient tablet to Iraq after more than four decades.

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The artefact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text - a system of writing on clay in an ancient Babylonian alphabet. It is not clear how the tablet was found - or how it made its way to Italy where it was seized by police in the 1980s.

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