A postal service 6000 years old has been discovered among the ruins of Ur of the Chaldees. Lacking parchment, the writers fashioned thefr letters in clay and left them to bake in the sun.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 195, 1 August 1934, Page 8
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