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Crabgrass Frontier
Crabgrass Frontier

by Kenneth T. Jackson

Written in cuneiform on a clay tablet, this letter to the King of Persia in 539 B.C. represents the first extant express...

1985 5 ed.
"They said to me, and I repeat"
"They said to me, and I repeat"

by Vystavka "Oni mne skazali, a I͡A povtori͡ai͡u" (2001 Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia))

2001 2 ed.
How many people can the earth support?
How many people can the earth support?

by Joel E. Cohen

"Shortly before 1600 B.C., a junior scribe in what is now Iraq transcribed on three clay tablets a Babylonian history of...

1995 6 ed.
Assyrian Antiquities: Guide to the Nimroud Central Saloon
Assyrian Antiquities: Guide to the Nimroud Central Saloon

by British Museum Dept . of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities , British Museum

1886 1 ed.
THE MAGIC FURNACE
THE MAGIC FURNACE

by MARCUS CHOWN

In the mists of antiquity, it must have occurred to many people to ask the question: what happens if I take this stick, ...

2000 2 ed.
Ancient calendars and constellations
Ancient calendars and constellations

by Emmeline M. Plunket

EPPING and Strassmaier, in their book Astronomisches aus Babylon, have lately translated three small documents, original...

1903 3 ed.