Although the idea may have come from Mesopotamia, the script was independent of the cuneiform. |
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Well, the beginnings are to be found in archaeological remains in Mesopotamia, the Ancient Near East. |
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In the pre-dynastic period, it was Mesopotamia and its ziggurats that provided the model for the Egyptians. |
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Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia. |
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The department of Assyriology advances the study of cuneiform texts stemming from ancient Mesopotamia. |
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Look at the Aztecs, the Incas, Mesopotamia, the Mongols, The Europeans, Timbuktu, China, Japan. |
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Very crudely speaking, these two artefacts bookend the period of Babylonian supremacy in Mesopotamia. |
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The early civilizations of Mesopotamia included the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian empires. |
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Kipling, like many others, blamed the Government of India for trying to conduct the occupation of Mesopotamia too thriftily. |
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We are stuck with the world we have lost, as news of the latest Homeric disaster emerges from the battlefronts of Mesopotamia. |
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The first animal-drawn carts and battlewagons appeared in Mesopotamia around 4,700 years ago. |
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The gods were derived from the world of nature for the simple reason that life in Mesopotamia was controlled or conditioned by the seasons. |
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The Hebrews must certainly have encountered them, and learned the handed-down traditions of early Mesopotamia, the myths and tales. |
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The Babylonian civilisation in Mesopotamia replaced the Sumerian civilisation and the Akkadian civilisation. |
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Gilgamesh is a collection of poems engraved in cuneiform script on clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. |
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The earliest Armenian history was related to the Hittites and the Urartians as well as with the peoples of Mesopotamia. |
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Digital representations of the tablets bearing the cuneiform writing of ancient Mesopotamia have started appearing on the Internet. |
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By Hammurabi's time, in Mesopotamia there had accumulated literally centuries of archived legal decisions and property deeds. |
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In Egypt pyramids were used as monumental tombs, whereas in Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and South America they were temple platforms. |
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The first group of people to take over the Mesopotamia region was the Akkadians. |
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It merely serves as a pretext to whip the country into a war frenzy and to justify insertion of large numbers of troops into Mesopotamia. |
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The keelless Reed Boat was used for river and coastal transport in Egypt and Mesopotamia. |
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But Abraham was born in Mesopotamia, in particular in a bustling place called Ur Kasdim, or Ur of the Chaldees, which has been excavated by archeologists in today's Iraq. |
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Already in the nineteenth century, the recovery and decipherment of writings from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had caused an immense public stir. |
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Research is continuing, but it poses the question, do we have here a unique glazed stone item, reminiscent of the glazed steatite of 5th millennium Mesopotamia? |
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Chariots, which allowed bowmen or even heavily armored warriors to move around a battlefield quickly, appeared around 4,100 years ago and also made their debut in Mesopotamia. |
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It started in the south, Chan says, then spread to Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran, as well as to the Greco-Roman world. |
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Of the roughly 1.3 million Indian combatants and non-combatants sent overseas to fight for the British empire, the largest chunk were routed to Mesopotamia. |
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That over-irrigation condemned Mesopotamia in West Asia, once the cradle of civilisation, to barrenness for the last three thousand years, does not deter them. |
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As for our current adventure in Mesopotamia, consider this lustrous alumni roster. |
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Yet, one still would have to show that this Egyptian creation was transferred to Mesopotamia, and that the Sumerian proto-cuneiform and cuneiform writing derived from Egypt. |
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The Surge has stemmed the blood loss from the land between two rivers, but upstream from Mesopotamia, the patient still bleeds. |
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Third is the seed drill ard, used specifically in Mesopotamia, which added a funnel for dropping seed in the furrows as the ard cut them. |
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After Maurice's murder by Phocas, Khosrau used the pretext to reconquer the Roman province of Mesopotamia. |
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Following this, Heraclius led an invasion into Sassanid Mesopotamia once again. |
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Common ostriches have inspired cultures and civilizations for 5,000 years in Mesopotamia and Egypt. |
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Perfumery, as the art of making perfumes, began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, and was further refined by the Romans and Persians. |
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Many Mauritians volunteered to fight in Europe against the Germans and in Mesopotamia against the Turks. |
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In addition to modern Iran, it includes portions of the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Central Asia. |
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Subsequent Achaemenid art and iconography reflect the influence of the new political reality in Mesopotamia. |
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Bahrain was home to the Dilmun civilization, an important Bronze Age trade centre linking Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. |
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By the 10th century, sources state that no village in Mesopotamia did not grow sugarcane. |
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Historically part of Ancient India, it is one of the world's earliest urban civilisations, along with Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. |
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Ebla was a prominent trading centre during the third millennia, with a network reaching into Anatolia and north Mesopotamia. |
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Tchogha Zanbil is one of the few standing ziggurats remaining outside Mesopotamia. |
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A Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian background, Mani founded the religion named after him during the third century CE in Persian Mesopotamia. |
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Gozan, Harran, Rezeph, and Telessar were in Mesopotamia. Some other places are not known. |
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Eurasia has been the host of many ancient civilizations, including those based in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and China. |
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The following year was devoted to suppressing Mesopotamia and other Parthian vassals who had backed Niger. |
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The Parthian capital Ctesiphon was sacked by the legions and the northern half of Mesopotamia was annexed to the Empire. |
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Hadrian withdrew all the troops stationed in Parthia and Mesopotamia, abandoning Trajan's conquests. |
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Also there is the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in Murder in Mesopotamia. |
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Although the collections centre on Mesopotamia, most of the surrounding areas are well represented. |
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In ancient Mesopotamia, many rulers of Assyria, Babylonia and Sumer were absolute monarchs as well. |
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In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. |
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The British were aided in Mesopotamia by local Arab and Assyrian tribesmen, while the Ottomans employed local Kurdish and Turcoman tribes. |
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In the east, the Ottoman Turks took Baghdad from the Persians in 1535, gaining control of Mesopotamia and naval access to the Persian Gulf. |
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Ships from the harbour at these ancient port cities established trade with Mesopotamia. |
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Stamps and moulds were used by most ancient civilizations, from ancient Rome and Mesopotamia to China. |
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The Protoliterate period in Mesopotamia, dominated by Uruk, saw the production of sophisticated works like the Warka Vase and cylinder seals. |
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The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as the cradle of civilisation. |
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Iraq was placed under the authority of the United Kingdom as the British Mandate of Mesopotamia. |
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During the 20th century BC, the Canaanite speaking Amorites began to migrate into southern Mesopotamia. |
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Some historians believe that the Mongol invasion destroyed much of the irrigation infrastructure that had sustained Mesopotamia for millennia. |
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As early as the 18th century BC, ancient Mesopotamia recognized the need to protect women's property rights. |
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In ancient Mesopotamia carved or engraved cylinder seals in stone or other materials were used. |
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Many of the civilisational achievements of Mesopotamia are the product of that symbiosis. |
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Thus it was from Edessa that a missionary movement began which gradually spread throughout Mesopotamia, Persia, Central Asia and China. |
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The civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and the Yellow River shared many similarities. |
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The early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Maya, Greece and Rome were some of the cradles of civilization. |
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Canaanite religious mythology does not appear as elaborated compared with existent literature of their cousin Semites in Mesopotamia. |
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Whether it was invented in Egypt or something they picked up from Mesopotamia via trade is unsure. |
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Sheep were domesticated in Mesopotamia between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago. |
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The empire reached its height in the 13th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor, northwestern Syria and northwest upper Mesopotamia. |
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Trajan's war against the Parthian Empire ended with the sack of the capital Ctesiphon and the annexation of Armenia and Mesopotamia. |
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For many literate cultures, such as Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, their surviving records are often incomplete and biased to some extent. |
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By 1000 BC, caravans of Arabian camels were linking India with Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean. |
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That would explain why in Mesopotamia seed drills were used together with ards. |
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Operations led by Bedirhan Bey to seize the fertile lands of northern Mesopotamia were tacitly approved by the Sublime Porte. |
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Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia and Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, while many minor characters were archaeologists in They Came to Baghdad. |
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In The Sky Garment I argued that the tarpya garment of the Vedic king, ascribed to his model, God Varuna, continues the royal robe that the Harappans adopted from Mesopotamia. |
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The Indus civilisation is one of three in the 'Ancient East' that, along with Mesopotamia and Pharonic Egypt, was a cradle of civilisation in the Old World. |
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Zanj also worked the salt mines of Mesopotamia, especially around Basra. |
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The earliest chronologies date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, though no historical writers in these early civilizations were known by name. |
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The Hittites adopted the cuneiform script, invented in Mesopotamia. |
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Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the east by the Armenian Highlands, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia. |
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The ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia used a complex system of canals and levees to divert water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for irrigation. |
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Pigs were domesticated in Mesopotamia around 15,000 years ago. |
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Since this is significantly later than the discovery of bronze in Mesopotamia, bronze technology could have been imported rather than discovered independently in China. |
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In the 14th century BC, the Hittite Kingdom was at its height, encompassing central Anatolia, southwestern Syria as far as Ugarit, and upper Mesopotamia. |
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In the Hellenized east, ancient civilizations like those of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Judea and Syria, effectively resisted all but its most superficial effects. |
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Jade or other types of greenstone were used in China, Olmec Mexico, and Neolithic Europe, and in early Mesopotamia large pottery shapes were produced in stone. |
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Britain fought the Ottoman Empire, suffering defeats in the Gallipoli Campaign and in Mesopotamia, while arousing the Arabs who helped expel the Turks from their lands. |
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During the First World War, the railways were used to transport troops and grains to the ports of Bombay and Karachi en route to Britain, Mesopotamia, and East Africa. |
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They include approximately 130,000 cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia. |
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This happened in the river valleys of Egypt and Mesopotamia. |
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