Costco has mastered the impulse buy. Shoppers pop in for eggs or rotisserie chicken only to wheel out baskets piled higher ...

However, the original story is thought to have been written ... At first researchers thought the scripture was an everyday item like a shopping list, since the handwriting was so clumsy.

Although modern day shopping lists are most commonly used around supermarkets, these of course didn't exist almost 3,500-years-ago, and intriguingly the list discovered in Turkey was for furniture.