The earliest documented evidence of collecting comes from excavations of the Persian tombs at Ur in what is now Iraq. A collection of eleven hundred seal impressions on lumps of clay found there date to the fifth century B.C.E. –from Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee’s Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things a [...]
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Ur Hoard
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
