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Find the Future: Cuneiforms and Photocopies
May 14, 2011
Celebrating 100 Years (Juxtaposition 2 of 8):
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What do 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets have in common with a 73-year-old photocopy? Thomas Mellins, curator of The New York Public Library's "Celebrating 100 Years" exhibition, explains.

