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One of the world’s earliest known game boards, this board comes from a royal tomb, circa 2,450BCE.
Photograph: Photo/Penn Museum
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A breathless press release-article about an exhibit at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia left me damned near breathless myself. Seriously ... and I dislike press-release writing habits, but....
The fertile lands of Mesopotamia are rightly hailed as a “cradle of
civilization”, where some of the most important human innovations
originated, from agriculture and writing to religion and music. The Penn
Museum in Philadelphia
has long been home to one of the world’s most significant collections
of ancient artifacts from the region – but for years, only a limited
number of pieces were shown in encyclopedic, old-school displays that
did not do them justice.
The "cradle of civilization" and the best anyone can do is make war there?
Making war is what we do best.
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