A Bronze Age disagreementSourced
One of Europe's oldest
legal disputes was about land.
Around 1180 BCE, the Mycenaean priestess Eritha disputed the status of her land with a local community. Clay tablets preserve what is considered Europe's oldest evidence of a legal dispute. Its outcome is unknown.
Land questions have
a very long history.
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