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ARTS: BOOKS: No bull mounted cow, no donkey impregnated jenny (phew!); A new study of ancient Mesopotamia intrigues A C Grayling by its understanding of law, literature and divine libido;.(Features)
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The Independent Sunday (London, England)
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August 26, 2001| Author:
Grayling, A C.
| COPYRIGHT 2001 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City By Gwendolyn Leick ALLEN LANE pounds 25
Because of Saddam Hussein, British and American pilots every day look down from the cockpits of their jet fighters at Eden, the home not of mankind but of civilisation. They do this because they patrol southern Iraqi airspace, and their view includes the evocative land where the Tigris and Euphrates join together to run into vast marshlands, which in turn dissolve into the Persian Gulf. Just n...
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