Letters from Mesopotamia: official business, and private letters on clay tablets from two millennia

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Important places: Mesopotamia
Original language: English

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Genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 913.3 — History & geography Geography & travel Travel to Specific Places Antiquities of ancient countries
LCC: DS71 .O7 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Iraq (Assyria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia) History

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