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  • ...tablet]]s that contained the ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', the world's oldest literature. He is accepted as the first-known [[Chaldean people|Chaldean]], [[Ottoman At the age of 20 in 1846, Rassam was hired by British archaeologist [[Austen Henry Lay
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  • |era = [[Bronze Age]] ...not well documented, but some scholars posit that there was a brief "dark age", followed by a power struggle among the most powerful city-states. On the
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  • |era = [[Bronze Age]] ...ell documented, but most Assyriologists posit that there was a brief "dark age", followed by a power struggle among the most powerful city-states. On the
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  • |era = [[Bronze Age]] ...ell documented, but most Assyriologists posit that there was a brief "dark age", followed by a power struggle among the most powerful city-states. On the
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  • ...myth of [[Inanna]]'s descent into the underworld, from the early [[Bronze Age]]. ..."'', Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East, by Members of the American Oriental Society, De
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  • The area around Diyarbakır has been inhabited by humans from the stone age with tools from that period having been discovered in the nearby Hilar cave ...tory of Rome, The Establishment of the Military Monarchy]. Italian.classic-literature.co.uk. Retrieved on 2012-05-13.</ref>
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  • | epochs = Early [[Bronze Age]] to ? At a late date it appears in Mesopotamia literature in the forms ''[[Anshar|An-sar]]'', ''An-sar (ki)'', which form was presuma
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  • ...ern-day southern [[Iraq]], during the [[Chalcolithic]] and [[Early Bronze Age]]. Although it was previously thought that the earliest forms of writing in ...lume=18 |issue=2 |pages= |doi= |accessdate=8 January 2014}}</ref> Sumerian literature speaks of their homeland being [[Dilmun]].
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  • ...a]]n empire, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the [[Iron Age]], it was controlled by the [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]]s. The indigenous Cha ....com/books?id=K-4OtwAACAAJ&d |title=Southern Mesopotamia During the Bronze Age|work= Lisa E. Gross|year=2003|pages=|postscript=}}</ref> In modern academic
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  • ...suing [[Bronze Age collapse]], resulting in the shift of the entire Bronze Age chronology of Mesopotamia with regard to the [[chronology of Ancient Egypt] ...ia, no further territory was lost, Elam did not threaten, and the [[Bronze Age Collapse]] now affecting the [[Levant]], [[Canaan]], [[Egypt]], [[The Cauca
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  • ...le East]] and [[Egypt]] in the late [[Bronze Age|Bronze]] and early [[Iron Age]]s. ...merian]] cuneiform orthography for the purpose. During the [[Middle Bronze Age]] (Old Babylonian period), the language virtually displaced Sumerian, which
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