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Hey, mister -- wanna buy a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet for $10?

By Katharine Mieszkowski

Iraq's economic collapse means the oldest writing in the world can be bought for a song on eBay -- and has scholars racing to digitize Sumerian artifacts before they become paperweights.

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