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The World's Oldest Customer Complaint

One-Minute Dig: Episode 4

Welcome to One-Minute Dig, your source for quick and fascinating historical facts, presented by Petros Koutoupis of Digging Up The Past.

Think you've had a bad experience with a business? Imagine being so frustrated that you decided to complain about it nearly 4,000 years ago. One ancient customer did exactly that, and somehow, his complaint survived long enough for us to read it today. What could possibly have gone so wrong?


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