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What Is Important to Know about Mesopotamia
Published on 17 Sep 2007 at 12:02 am.
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You do the Google search, as some visitor here did, and you learn, Mesopotamia Rules. I like that one.
Here’s another important thing to know about Mesopotamia. Sort of. You could dicker about the geography. And they do.
But we’re a long way from Mesopotamia. Want to know how far? This far.*
* Text notwithstanding, that looks like a military [...]
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Beer Not Near Sumeria
Published on 24 Jan 2007 at 10:19 pm.
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Well, this is serious business. The earliest evidence of beer is turning up in Kurdistan, but Kurdish noses that should be aloft with pride are instead out of joint, and rightly so. Because some U.S. and Canuck archaeologists apparently assume the technology must have come from Sumeria. Like the Kurds need some flatland, swamp-dwelling Iraqis to teach them [...]
