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Human Remains from Jemdet Nasr, Mesopotamia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Henry Field
Affiliation:
Assistant Curator, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Extract

During the past ten winter seasons the Field Museum – Oxford University Joint Expedition has been conducting archæological excavations on the site of the ancient city of Kish, which according to the texts, was “the first city founded after the Flood”.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1932

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