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A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...

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Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

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The kiln furniture made for the Cuneiform Tablet Laboratory at the British Museum was nearing the end of its working life by 1992. A design project was thus undertaken to produce a kiln furniture ...

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Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Devoted to an examination of the civilizations of the Near East, the Journal of Near Eastern Studies has for 125 years ...

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