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A 4,000-Year-Old Marriage Contract, Explained

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Jul 20, 2026
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Somewhere in central Turkey, roughly four thousand years ago, a man named Laqipum and a woman named Hatala sat down, in the company of witnesses, and did something remarkably modern. They wrote a pre…

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