Ea-Nasir was a copper merchant in ancient Mesopotamia whose business practices were so notoriously terrible that his angry customers carved their complaints into clay tablets that survived for nearly four thousand years.

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Ea-Nasir was a copper merchant in ancient Mesopotamia whose business practices were so notoriously terrible that his angry customers carved their complaints into clay tablets that survived for nearly four thousand years. Archaeologists excavating his former home in the city of Ur discovered a massive hoard of these ancient one-star reviews, primarily from a man named Nanni who was absolutely furious about receiving sub-par copper ingots and having his servant treated with disrespect. Instead of throwing these brutal customer feedback tablets away, this ancient scam artist carefully archived them in a dedicated room, essentially building a shrine to his own grift. It proves that thousands of years before the invention of the internet, internet trolls, or Yelp, scammers were still out there happily ripping people off and proudly saving the receipts just to revel in the sheer audacity of their own terrible customer service