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@futurebird

Here’s an interesting passage from the article:

“Plimpton 322 was uncovered in Iraq at the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Larsa around 1920. After World War I, as the Allies carved up the Ottoman Empire, speculators swarmed to plunder the region’s ancient treasures for museums and libraries. Among these adventurers was Edgar James Banks, an archaeologist who climbed Mount Ararat in search of Noah’s ark and was a model for the fictional character Indiana Jones.”

@futurebird

Here's an article from Columbia University (the institution that has custody of the tablet) that gives a little more of the history of the Plimpton 322 tablet.
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/babylon-revisited