Tablet about payment of donkey debt discovered in Kültepe believed to be oldest trade document

The text about the sale of a donkey was found in a grave in Kültepe. DHA Photo

Archaeologists working on the Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri have discovered a trade document believed to be the world’s oldest. 

Ankara University Archaeology Department academic and the head of the excavations, Professor Fikri Kulakoğlu, said the artifact mentioned the payment of a “donkey debt.”

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