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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation
Gilgamesh is the story of a king, tyrannous though magnificent, lording it over the people of Uruk. It tells of how he came to love Enkidu, provided by the gods as a kind of opposing twin for him. The ...
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Move over, Oppenheimer: Barbie meets Gilgamesh in this University of Iowa business class
These days, the summer of 2023 feels like it was 4,000 years ago, but actually, it was less than two. If you need hard ...
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Who Were the Anunnaki, Really? A Special Investigation
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