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The Mesopotamian riddle: an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing
The Mesopotamian riddle: an archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world's oldest writing
Author
Hammer, Joshua
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
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Preface
Prologue: a contest on New Burlington street
Rawlinson
Persepolis
Behistun
Kandahar
On the Mesopotamian Plain
Palace on the Tigris
Botta's find
The mound
Hincks
The Akkadian Conundrum
The Black Obelisk
The museum
The Battle of Lachish
Friendship in the desert
Killyleagh
Talbot
The end of an era
The unraveled mystery
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Assyriology
Assyriology -- History
Civilization
Cuneiform inscriptions
Cuneiform writing
Historical geography
History
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia -- Civilization
Mesopotamia -- Historical geography
Mesopotamia -- History
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9781668015445
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