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Reading the tabletsโฆ
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Often called the world's first declaration of human rights โ a 20th-century characterization that overstates its scope; it is, more accurately, a typical Mesopotamian royal accession text framed as Marduk's restoration of order. But its references to religious tolerance and the return of exiled peopโฆ