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Mesopotamia
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  • Used in Mesopotamia until roughly 2000 B.C. The oldest of all written languages.†  (source)
  • His civilization had flourished for thousands of years in the harsh and unforgiving land of Mesopotamia before anyone had ever heard of a place called America.†  (source)
  • He emanated the aura of such advanced age that one could suppose he might have predated the great Mesopotamian cities of antiquity, the Chinese Empire, and several of the lesser mountain ranges like the Andes and the Alps (being merely a contemporary of the Himalayas).†  (source)
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  • With its fancy palaces and temples, Babylon was one of the greatest cities of Mesopotamia.†  (source)
  • yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together;†  (source)
  • The pharaohs told similar accounts; so did the Mesopotamians, the Nubians, and the Aborigines.†  (source)
  • He sent his best servant to Mesopotamia with many camels and gifts.†  (source)
  • Hammurabi's were partly based on Mesopotamian traditions that were old even then.†  (source)
  • You know, to the Mesopotamians, there was no independent concept of evil.†  (source)
  • Yes, it goes back to a legend associated with Mesopotamia.†  (source)
  • The greatest talc of the elixir quest in the Mesopotamian, pre-biblical tradition is that of Gilgamesh, a legendary king of the Sumerian city of Erech, who set forth to attain the watercress of immortality, the plant "Never Grow Old."†  (source)
  • Let me tell you about ancient Mesopotamia.†  (source)
  • Wherever the Mesopotamian influence extended, the traits of the goddess were touched by the light of this fluctuating star.†  (source)
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