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A team of Italian scientists is exploring a rapid prototyping laser-scanning technique to reproduce 5,000-year-old Iraqi cuneiform tablets.
Scientists with Pisa University's Assyriology Department and the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment conceived of the project dubbed "Duplication and Rebirth" to re-create replicas of the tablets dating from the Mesopotamian era.

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A curious case of Americans versus Iran has the Tehran government asking for Washington to intervene and the University of Chicago defending the Islamic regime in court.

At issue is an extremely valuable collection of ancient Persian cuneiform tablets that victims of a terror bombing want to seize and auction as compensation.
The clay tablets have been kept in the Chicago university's museum since the 1930s.
But lawyers for Americans wounded in a 1997 bombing in Jerusalem won a court ruling last month that takes them a step closer to seizing the collection for want of other accessible Iranian assets in the US.

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