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17 hours ago · In 1838 Henry Rawlinson, building on the 1802 work of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, ... The University of Pennsylvania began excavating Sumerian Nippur in 1888.
2 days ago · Ashurbanipal [a] ( Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: Aššur-bāni-apli, [10] [b] meaning " Ashur is the creator of the heir") [3] [12] was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria. [8] [13] Ashurbanipal inherited the throne as the favored heir of his father ...
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5 days ago · Excavation work done in 1967 revealed the remains of a Jewish colony centered on a small temple, above, in Elephantine, in what is present-day Aswan, Egypt. (Olaf Tausch/Wikipedia) Advertisement....
5 days ago · A 3,000-year-old canoe sits in its original resting place at the bottom of Lake Mendota in Madison following excavation work. Photo courtesy of Tamara Thomsen, Wisconsin Historical Society As many as 11 ancient canoes have been found lurking at the bottom of Madison’s Lake Mendota, according to archaeologists with the Wisconsin Historical ...
1 day ago · The Neo-Assyrian Empire [b] was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, [14] [c] the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew to dominate the ancient Near East throughout much of the 8th and 7th centuries BC, becoming the largest empire in history up to that point.
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4 days ago · Don't name a library after me, please, I'm still writing. I had a long talk with my friend George Latimer, the mayor of St. Paul, last Monday, which went on for 54 minutes, which is a long time for a dying man, but Mayor Latimer is quite feisty at 88, has been in and out of hospice a few times so his intentions aren’t clear, and he was very funny, which is how I want to be when I am dying ...
