A 3,800-year-old woman once wrote a frustrated letter to her husband complaining about a debtor who refused to repay him; archaeologists have now read the ancient message without breaking its clay envelope
(Image credit: UHH/K.Helmholz) The struggle to recover money someone owes you is familiar, even if the person on the other end of the transaction lived thousands of years ago. Imagine the disappointment of a woman instructed by her husband to retrieve silver he was owed, who, upon failure, penned her frustration in a letter addressed…