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Sentence Examples The first section, dealing with Mesopotamian magic, stresses the similarities to modern European rituals of healing and exorcism. As she so eloquently writes, ancient Mesopotamian sites and artifacts are part of the fabric of her earliest memories. The Basra reed warbler is a near-endemic species of Iraq whose last stronghold is the Mesopotamian marshlands to the north of Basra. It might help to recall that dreams of a pitched battle between East and West were Hellenistic and Mesopotamian before they were biblical. Ironically among the largest grants made was for archaeology, museum conservation and the teaching of ancient Mesopotamian languages. Modern scholars tend to picture Eden as a formal garden in the Mesopotamian style, irrigated to a fare-thee-well. Over two millennia these Mesopotamian cities developed the art of copper smelting, alloying bronze and, most importantly, writing. The proof comes in the gold and silver treasure found in ancient Egyptian tombs and even older Mesopotamian burial sites. In character there is a certain resemblance between Nimrod and the Mesopotamian epic hero Gilgamesh. The writing of the archives is classic Mesopotamian cuneiform using many Sumerian logograms. In the lower right corner on the most sacred symbol in recurrent glyptics Mesopotamian sometimes interpreted as the eye of a god! There are no other similar objects in Mesopotamian ceramics of this era, which could mean that this is an Ifriqiyan artefact. Mesopotamian stylistic features are also very apparent, both in ornamentation and in the use of mud-brick as building medium. Drums, sometimes very large, were important in Mesopotamian ritual, while the characteristic instrument of Egyptian ceremony was the sistrum or rattle. Mr Hagemeijer had suggested discussing the potential role of AEWA in the interest of reconstructing of the Mesopotamian wetlands in Iraq. The Mesopotamian cities continued their economic and intellectual development and in consequence kept the ancient Mesopotamian culture. The old Mesopotamian cities continued, as in the preceding period, their own life under the Seleucids. Eventually the Elamites rose in rebellion and overthrew the 3rd Ur dynasty, an event long remembered in Mesopotamian dirges and omen texts. Some theurgic efficacy was attributed to these practices, and there was some contamination from Egyptian, Hellenistic, or Mesopotamian magic. Following Hammurabi's death in 1750 B.C., the old pattern emerged once again of Mesopotamian empires fragmenting after the passing of their founders. Show More Sentences Their imprisonment in the Earth is reflected in the Mesopotamian epics where some of the Anunnaki suffer a similar fate. Tammuz, Sumerian Dumuzi, in Mesopotamian religion, god of fertility embodying the powers for new life in nature in the spring. Why has Indian civilisation survived over the years, instead of going the way of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Babylonian civilisations? Sumerians in the Mesopotamian river basin began carving cuneiform financial records onto clay tablets 5,000 years back. 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. The eight-pointed star is a symbol of the Mesopotamian Goddess Inanna, also known as Ishtar. Canada supports one project focusing on the marshes in Iraq, and particularly the Mesopotamian marshes located in the south of the country, are the largest in the Middle East. Economic writings date from earlier Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Indian subcontinent, Chinese, Persian, and Arab civilizations. Hipparchus had some knowledge of Mesopotamian astronomy, and he felt that Greek models should match those of the Babylonians in accuracy. A lifelong decipherer of Mesopotamian clay tablets at the British Museum, Irving Finkel is also a comparative philologist, an amateur mathematician and, above all, a gifted detective and a charming expounder of mysteries. These Mesopotamian chariots were mounted by both spearman and charioteer, although it is doubtful that fighting was conducted from the vehicle itself. This ewer is of great importance both as a dated example of Mesopotamian work and because its inscriptions provide the names of two Mosul craftsmen. In January 2009, the Peruvian Government returned to the Iraqi Government three tablets of Mesopotamian origin inscribed with cuneiform writing which had been seized in February 2008 at Lima airport. Anyhow we can believe that this construction must have been of a grandiose scale, compared to the familiar plantations of the Mesopotamian riversides. A subject quite common in the Mesopotamian glyptics even archaic, as was the custom with origins appear naked before her to serve on the recount and express complete submission to the divine. While intensive irrigation has supported Mesopotamian agriculture for thousands of years, it has caused in combination with poor drainage the progressive destruction of the soil through salinization. Our interest is based on the fact that within the satrapy of Assyria-Babylonia, the old Mesopotamian towns preserved their cultures, their languages and their internal organisations. This finely carved figurine of a dancing girl of typically Mesopotamian physiognomy is made of solid ivory, with a wooden framework affording it a degree of stability. Elamite language, extinct language spoken by the Elamites in the ancient country of Elam, which included the region from the Mesopotamian plain to the Iranian Plateau. In the cool air of their hilltop fastnesses, the toings and froings on the Mesopotamian plain are distractions from the serious business of building a viable Kurdish entity. Show More Sentences The year chosen was the year of entry of Seleucus into Babylon, 311 bce according to the Mesopotamian reckoning and 312 bce according to the Syrians. We have every reason to believe that Mesopotamian gods had their representatives on earth: King Sargon II proclaimed himself the legitimate shepherd chosen by Assur and Marduk. For computing with angles, the Greeks adopted the Mesopotamian sexagesimal method in arithmetic, whence it survives in the standard units for angles and time employed to this day. In Egyptian and some Mesopotamian statues can be seen the same renderings of parallel, slanting, and radiating folds and ridges, as well as the archlike hemline that allows the feet to protrude. Some discussions were a trifle arcane, it is true, with sharp exchanges about ancient Hebrew cosmology and the degree to which the Book of Genesis draws on Mesopotamian creation and flood motifs. The city, the cradle of Mesopotamian civilization and birthplace of writing and urban planning, was also placed immediately on the List of World Heritage in Danger. The bowl, decorated in a simple but pleasing style, could be considered typical of Mesopotamian pieces painted in blue cobalt only on a creamy white base. With its variety of forms and the wealth of its decorative repertoire, which combines Byzantine and Mesopotamian influences, it embodies most facets of the Kairouanese school. Although it is the easternmost outpost under Aleppine rule, its architectural and decorative features are less Aleppine and more far more strongly Mesopotamian and Eastern-inspired. In early Mesopotamian culture, kings were often regarded as deities after their death. Shulgi of Ur was among the first Mesopotamian rulers to declare himself to be divine. The Mesopotamian collections were greatly augmented by excavations in southern Iraq after the First World War. In 1925, TPC received concession in the Mesopotamian oil resources from the Iraqi government under British mandate. Mesopotamian architecture was characterized by the use of brick, lintel and the introduction of construction elements like arc and vault. In some form, it can be traced back almost 5000 years to Mesopotamian writings describing daily rations of beer and bread to workers. The British lost 92,000 soldiers in the Mesopotamian campaign. Mesopotamian towns were protected from flooding with high earthen walls. 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. In its totality, the throneroom represents a complex play between convention and innovation in the sequence of ancient Mesopotamian art up to that point. 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. Show More Sentences The second plot involved Mesopotamian archers who were loyal to Alexander. 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. Artifacts and paintings at the site suggest that the Canaanites had contact with the Egyptians, Mesopotamian cultures and the Minoan civilization. Mesopotamian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Chinese characters functioned successfully over a time span longer than the Roman alphabet, for all their evident complexity. The returned object was not a mesopotamian artifact, at least not in a traditional sense. The mesopotamian bas-reliefs echoed in the shadow of Light From the Left by Charles Ray. Examples from Classical Literature Nineveh is an ancient Mesopotamian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in Nineveh province. The Mesopotamian imbroglio was denounced as both a crime and a blunder. Lambert's Babylonian Oracle Questions is an interesting and important volume that fits well into the Mesopotamian Civilizations series. The site came to be known as the first site to be drilled in the Mesopotamian region, even before the Kirkuk site. Only a partial section of the Carboniferous developed in the Euphrates graben and the Mesopotamian Fore-deep. Firstly, Turco wisely approaches the remote Mesopotamian language and culture through an analogous culture less remote to our language, the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf. Bronze Age bigwigs in what's now Denmark wore brightly colored glass beads made in the workshops of Egyptian pharaohs and Mesopotamian rulers, a new investigation finds. The second was the donkey belonging to a Mesopotamian seer named Balaam, who had been hired by the Moabites to prophesy against the Israelites, their enemies. Thirdly, we may mention Egyptian records as a source for mesopotamian history. The real frontier from this point was the mesopotamian desert, which extends from Kerkesiyeh to Nimrud, a distance of 150 miles. But I am far from depending on this authority for the age of the mesopotamian plain. The mesopotamian lion was thought milder than its jungle cousin. This poverty in nature must perplex the mesopotamian artist. Find more words! 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