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A group of archaeologists in Austria stumbled across something interesting: an 800-year-old gadget that looks eerily like a modern cell phone, complete with cuneiform writing etched into its keys. It was dug up during excavations at Fuschl am See in Salzburg, making this thirteenth-century artifact is a head-scratcher. There are markings on it usually seen in places like modern-day Iran or Iraq, the heart of ancient Mesopotamia.
The cuneiform on this thing is where it gets really wild. Born in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE, this wedge-shaped script was scratched into clay to record everything such as business deals. Finding it in Austria, a world away from its ancient roots, is bizarre to say the least. Some think it might hint at trade routes stretching way further than we ever imagined, possibly bringing Mesopotamian goods or ideas to medieval Europe.
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For now, this artifact’s secrets are still locked away. No big archaeological journals have backed up the find, and the lack of solid proof keeps skeptics raising their eyebrows. Serious scholars haven’t jumped on board, and nobody knows where this “cell phone” even is—maybe stashed in some private collection or just floating in the internet’s rumor mill.
