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Ancient Babylonian Map Offers a Rare 2,600-Year-Old View of the World - MSN
A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...
Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia
WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...
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Babylonian bricks provide clues to ancient Earth’s magnetic field - The Hill
Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that ...
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The story of ancient Mesopotamia and the dawn of the modern world
Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...
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Later Mesopotamia and Iran : tribes and empires, 1600-539 B. C. : proceedings of a seminar in memory of Vladimir G. Lukonin / edited by John Curtis - Smithsonian Institution
This is a companion volume and sequel to Early Mesopotamia and Iran: Contact and Conflict, c. 3500-1600 BC. ... 95 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm Place Iraq Iran Data Source ...