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Assyria's Preferred Empire Was Protection Money, Not Conquest

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Zahi Hawass: A Robot Drilled Through a Door Inside a Pyramid Shaft

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The Royal Game of Ur Was Drawn on Clay Tablets Across Mesopotamia

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The Uruk Expansion: Colonies or Trading Posts?

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Schliemann Dug Straight Through the Troy He Was Looking For

Hawass: The Great Pyramid Has No More Than One Million Blocks

Writing Started With Clay Tokens for Counting Sheep

Ancient Mesopotamian Recipes Are Basically Riddles

Hammurabi Returned the Sandals Crete Sent Him

Zahi Hawass: Pyramid Builders Were Buried With Beer and Perfume

Millions of Cuneiform Tablets Are Still Waiting Underground

The Flood Story's "Noisy People" Really Meant Too Many People

The Ark Tablet Says the Boat Was Round

The Gods Wanted Humans Gone Because They Were Too Noisy

Bronze Age Grave Goods in Anatolia Were Too Weak to Use

Queen Naqia: About 50 Documents Show an Assyrian Queen at Work

The Seven Gates of the Underworld Were Meant to Keep the Dead In

An Assyrian King Wrote His Mother: "As You Said, It Is Well"

In the Mesopotamian Underworld You Eat Clay and Drink Mud

When the Omens Were Bad, Assyria Killed a Fake King. And a Fake Queen.

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