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Return to Babylon
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Brian M. Fagan |
In the barren landscape between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, adventurers of the nineteenth century suspected that the remains of fabled kingdoms lay beneath the sands. As they dug into the mounds… |
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L' introduction et la diffusion de la technologie du bronze en Syrie-Mésopotamie
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Virginia Verardi |
This study looks at the introduction of bronze technology in Syria/Mesopotamia and its subsequent diffusion and social consequences for the history of the region in the second millennium BC. |
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Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East
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Joy McCorriston |
In this book, Joy McCorriston examines the continuity of traditions over millennia in the Near East. Tracing the phenomenon of pilgrimage in pre-Islamic Arabia up through the development of the Hajj,… |
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The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
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Milbry Polk |
"The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad is a reconstruction in book form of one of the world's largest and most important museums, which will never be the same again. Focusing on the objects housed … |
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Prehistory in Northeastern Arabia
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Abdullah Hassan Masry |
"Prehistory in Northeastern Arabia: The Problem of Interregional Interaction" is a groundbreaking study of the earliest evidence of human actitivy in part of the ancient world whose history has, unti… |
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Two Lyres from Ur
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Maude De Schauensee |
"During the 1928-29 season at Ur, in the Great Death Pit of the Royal Cemetery, C. Leonard Woolley discovered two spectacular musical instruments - a silver Boat-shaped Lyre and a magnificent lyre wi… |
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