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Lecture Explores Significance of Library’s Ancient Artifact Collection
DePaul University Library Special Collections and Archives recently acquired the Charles L. Souvay Cuneiform Tablets Collection, an assortment of 94 clay cuneiform tablets up to 4,000 years old. Cuneiform is a Mesopotamian writing system that began being used around 3300 BCE in the region of Sumer, in modern Iraq. It