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Did Ancient Greeks really have laptops? (pics + vid)

The use of laptops in antiquity could explain a lot about the thriving Ancient Greek civilization

Newsroom February 3 12:41

Online conspiracy theorists have made the bizarre claim that an ancient Greek funerary relief depicts a modern-day laptop computer. Is this proof that time travelers from the twenty-first century visit the ancient Greeks and introduce them to the use of laptops?

The funerary relief claims to be a scene from Pandora’s Box but the slave girl appears to be holding a tablet.

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In another image from a vase painting at around 500 BC a man is depicted with a wax tablet.

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