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with credit given to Hammurabi (1700 BCE) and Sargon II (722 BCE). Mail may not have been the primary mission of this postal service, however. The role of the system as an intelligence-gathering apparatus is well documented, and the service was (later) called angariae, a term that in time came to indicate a tax system. The Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible makes mention of this system:

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