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Rock-cut tombs in Nuwayrat, Egypt where a pottery vessel in which the remains of a man, radiocarbon dated to around 2855–2570 cal BCE, was discovered. (John ...
Between 1968 and 1990, Donald P. Hansen and Vaughn E. Crawford directed six seasons of excavations at al-Hiba, the ancient Sumerian city-state Lagash. Overseen by Edward L. Ochsenschlager, the team ...
Pictographs on European Prehistoric Pottery.—We have received from Dr. L. A. Waddell a questionary on the Sumerian markings upon prehistoric pottery found in the Danube and associated valleys of ...
The Islamic scene -- The Umayyad caliphs (661-750 A.D.): the sources of Islamic ornament: and earlier contributions to the potter's technique -- First contacts with China: the Abbasid school of ...