| The returned object was not a mesopotamian artifact, at least not in a traditional sense. |
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| The mesopotamian bas-reliefs echoed in the shadow of Light From the Left by Charles Ray. |
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| The first section, dealing with Mesopotamian magic, stresses the similarities to modern European rituals of healing and exorcism. |
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| The Basra reed warbler is a near-endemic species of Iraq whose last stronghold is the Mesopotamian marshlands to the north of Basra. |
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| Modern scholars tend to picture Eden as a formal garden in the Mesopotamian style, irrigated to a fare-thee-well. |
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| The proof comes in the gold and silver treasure found in ancient Egyptian tombs and even older Mesopotamian burial sites. |
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| Over two millennia these Mesopotamian cities developed the art of copper smelting, alloying bronze and, most importantly, writing. |
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| It might help to recall that dreams of a pitched battle between East and West were Hellenistic and Mesopotamian before they were biblical. |
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| Ironically among the largest grants made was for archaeology, museum conservation and the teaching of ancient Mesopotamian languages. |
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| As she so eloquently writes, ancient Mesopotamian sites and artifacts are part of the fabric of her earliest memories. |
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| Drums, sometimes very large, were important in Mesopotamian ritual, while the characteristic instrument of Egyptian ceremony was the sistrum or rattle. |
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| Having forgotten his baseball cap in a hasty exit from his home after siesta, he has to make do with a flimsy local newspaper to fend off the Mesopotamian sun's hot temper. |
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| Why has Indian civilisation survived over the years, instead of going the way of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Babylonian civilisations? |
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| Following Hammurabi's death in 1750 B.C., the old pattern emerged once again of Mesopotamian empires fragmenting after the passing of their founders. |
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| Mesopotamian architecture was characterized by the use of brick, lintel and the introduction of construction elements like arc and vault. |
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| Hipparchus had some knowledge of Mesopotamian astronomy, and he felt that Greek models should match those of the Babylonians in accuracy. |
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| In some form, it can be traced back almost 5000 years to Mesopotamian writings describing daily rations of beer and bread to workers. |
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| Economic writings date from earlier Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Indian subcontinent, Chinese, Persian, and Arab civilizations. |
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| In early Mesopotamian culture, kings were often regarded as deities after their death. |
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| Shulgi of Ur was among the first Mesopotamian rulers to declare himself to be divine. |
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| The Mesopotamian collections were greatly augmented by excavations in southern Iraq after the First World War. |
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| In 1925, TPC received concession in the Mesopotamian oil resources from the Iraqi government under British mandate. |
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| The second plot involved Mesopotamian archers who were loyal to Alexander. |
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| Mesopotamian towns were protected from flooding with high earthen walls. |
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| Triumphal arch look similar to Mesopotamian Arch entrances like the Ishtar Gate but there is no evidence to support that the Romans got their influence from there. |
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| With a collection numbering some 330,000 works, the British Museum possesses the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq. |
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| Mesopotamian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters functioned successfully over a time span longer than the Roman alphabet, for all their evident complexity. |
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| Artifacts and paintings at the site suggest that the Canaanites had contact with the Egyptians, Mesopotamian cultures and the Minoan civilization. |
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| Among the added artefacts is a sculpture of the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, who had the power to change men into women, and the statues of Hadrian and Antinous. |
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| The British lost 92,000 soldiers in the Mesopotamian campaign. |
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| In its totality, the throneroom represents a complex play between convention and innovation in the sequence of ancient Mesopotamian art up to that point. |
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