4,000-year-old marriage contract was discovered

A marriage contract from 4,000 years ago in Turkey detailing the obligations of husband and wife, including situations . pregnant women.

American Archaeological Group - Turkey headed by Professor Christopher Woods (University of Chicago, USA) has found and studied an ancient text on stone excavated in Turkey. Thereby, the group discovered that this is a marriage contract signed from 4,000 years ago.

Marriage contract 4,000 years ago was written in hieroglyphs on stones - (PHOTO: ISTANBUL STUDY MAINTENANCE).

While the issue of the current marriage contract is still controversial in some countries, the ancients were very clear in marriage. According to the article recently published in the scientific journal Gynecological Endocrinology, the contract even specifies: if for two years, the woman cannot give birth, the husband is allowed to ask a female slave "to bring the pregnancy ".

Of course, since that time could not have fertilized in vitro, the husband was allowed to temporarily live with the female slave to have children.

However, after the slave girl gave birth to her first child, she must immediately be freed from slavery and be free to leave the house, the child is the son of the official husband and wife, the future self-pregnant household contracts in modern times.

Where ancient texts were discovered - (Photo: DAILY MAIL).

This stone belongs to a couple who lived during the Assyrian Empire, belonging to the brilliant Mesopotamian civilization of ancient Asia. Currently, the excavation area in Kültepe district, Turkey.

Earlier, many other ancient writings were also unearthed, recording economic transactions, having the oldest age of 5,500 BC, also from Mesopotamian civilization cities. It is the stone sphere used as envelopes, hollow inside and contains many different shape stone text.

The first "envelope" of humanity - (Photo: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO).

"These spheres represent the world's first data storage system" - Professor Christopher Woods said.