King Shulgi's Inlay 2100 BCE. This Lapiz Lazuli inlay was commissioned by the Sumerian King Shulgi in the year 2100BCE, it comes with the Kings written words that accompany the wooden box inlaid with an scene made from Lapis Lazuli which bears more than striking resemblence to todays modern desktop computers, this even right down to the single handed input most of todays novice typists utilise. The box and Inlay are of the same type as the so-called Standard of Ur an item still held in museums. However this Inlay comes with no academic description and scholars are unsure as to the meaning of the depiction. Even more concerning is the fact the King's Inlay has strangely went missing post the invasion of Iraq and is thought to have perhaps been stolen, looted from the Baghdad museum where it was formally kept, the great kings words are eerily strange also, as he mentions the future of Sumerian writings, proclaiming that even people without paved roads and access to the written word, as
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