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The Ancient Near East embraces the borders of Iran and Afghanistan in the east to the Levant and Anatolia, and from the Black Sea in the north to Egypt in the south. The Ancient Near East dispels many of the misapprehensions which have surrounded the study of the region. In this... read more

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At the time that the first written documents begin to yield some coherent sense (c. 3200, see Green 1980), Mesopotamia had been inhabited for well over 2000 years.

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  1. archaeology
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