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DOJ: Hobby Lobby Forfeits Smuggled “Rare Cuneiform”

Via press release from the Justice Department: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ordered the forfeiture of a rare cuneiform tablet bearing a portion of the epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian poem considered one of the world’s oldest works of literature. Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it originated in the area of modern-day Iraq …

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