Reading the zip codes of 3,500-year-old letters

Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 12:07 in Mathematics & Economics

Unfortunately, when ancient kings sent letters to each other, their post offices didn’t record the sender’s return address. It takes quite a bit of super-sleuthing by today’s...

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