KAYSERI - The disagreement between bride and mother-in-law had been existing for four thousand years and there was written evidence of it in cuneiform inscription in tablets.
Prof. Tahsin Ozguc who had been directing the excavations in Kultepe-Kanis Tumulus in central Kayseri province since 1948 told A.A. correspondent that they found important information on cuneiform writing tablets that dated 2000 B.C.
Ozguc said that Assyrians were marketing tins that were used in arm production and fabrics from world fashion center Mesopotamia in Anatolia. He added that Assyrian merchants were exchanging cuneiform writing tablets with their colleagues who sent them tins and fabrics from Mesopotamia and with their relatives.
Prof. Ozguc said that they found a tablet which was sent by a woman from Mesopotamia to her husband who was in Kanis and in the tablet sent by a caravan she said ''I suffer from your mother. She gives harm to me. I cannot carry this burden any more. Come back as soon as possible and save me from this woman.''
Ozguc added that when her husband did not return from Kanis, the bride sent another letter and said ''Your children grew up, they don't listen to the things I tell them. Come back quickly before your mother and children kill me.''
The two tablets were found in the grave of the man who did not return Mesopotamia and died in Kanis.
Prof. Ozguc said that women rights were very advanced four thousand years ago and a married woman was given a marriage certificate and when she divorced or her husband died, so that she got her share from the inheritance.
The cuneiform inscription tablets and other historical artifacts which were found in Kultepe-Kanis Tumulus on Kayseri-Malatya highway were exhibited in Ankara's Museum of Anatolian Civilizations and Kayseri Archeology Museum.
Cuneiform inscriptions were written on clay tablets and then were dried. The tablets were covered with another layer of clay and were dried again and this part (envelope) was broken to read the letter.