'And don't even get me stared on the weird family in the room next to us!' (Picture: The Trustees of the British Museum
‘And don’t even get me stared on the weird family in the room next to us!’ (Picture: The Trustees of the British Museum)

While this stone might look like random scribbles carved into a piece of rock, it actually says: ‘This place was awful: Un-comfy beds, rude staff, and miles away from the beach. 1 out of 5 stars.’

OK, that isn’t quite what it says, but it really is a service review written 3,750 years ago.

Someone called Nanni who lived in ancient Mesopotamia engraved this message into clay and sent it to his business partner Ea-nasir.

In the message he complains that the copper ignots offered were of low quality.

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A rough translation reads as: ‘What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt?’

It is unknown if Nanni ever received a response to his message, or whether he was left to simply complain to his friends and vow to never deal with the dastardly Ea-nasir again.

The ‘complaint’ currently lives in the British Museum, and although many others like it exist, the majority of them are thought to have been lost during the tragic looting of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad in 2003.

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