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Believe it or not, this carving is actually a 3,750-year-old customer service complaint | Metro News
While this stone might look like random scribbles carved into a piece
of rock, it actually says: ‘This place was awful: Un-comfy beds, rude
staff, and miles away from the beach. 1 out of 5 stars.’
OK, that isn’t quite what it says, but it really is a service review written 3,750 years ago.
Someone called Nanni who lived in ancient Mesopotamia engraved this message
into clay and sent it to his business partner Ea-nasir.
In the message he complains that the copper ignots offered were of low quality.
A rough translation reads as: ‘What do you take me for, that you treat somebody
like me with such contempt?’
It is unknown if Nanni ever received a response to his message, or whether he
was left to simply complain to his friends and vow to never deal with the
dastardly Ea-nasir again.
The ‘complaint’ currently lives in the British Museum, and although many others
like it exist, the majority of them are thought to have been lost during the tragic
looting of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad in 2003.
While this stone might look like random scribbles carved into a piece
of rock, it actually says: ‘This place was awful: Un-comfy beds, rude
staff, and miles away from the beach. 1 out of 5 stars.’
OK, that isn’t quite what it says, but it really is a service review written 3,750 years ago.
Someone called Nanni who lived in ancient Mesopotamia engraved this message
into clay and sent it to his business partner Ea-nasir.
In the message he complains that the copper ignots offered were of low quality.
A rough translation reads as: ‘What do you take me for, that you treat somebody
like me with such contempt?’
It is unknown if Nanni ever received a response to his message, or whether he
was left to simply complain to his friends and vow to never deal with the
dastardly Ea-nasir again.
The ‘complaint’ currently lives in the British Museum, and although many others
like it exist, the majority of them are thought to have been lost during the tragic
looting of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad in 2003.
