Art of the first cities : the third millennium B.C., from the Mediterranean to the Indus
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From may 8 to august 17 2003 |
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Archæology
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| Nearly 400 hundred pieces -sculptures, jewels, metals, cuneiform tablets - are proof of the birth the first cities and the first Empires in Syria and in Mesopotamia during the third century B.C. |
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 | | Priest-king (detail) Limestone Mesopotamia, ca. 3300-3000 B.C.H. 25 cm (9-7/8 in.)
Archeological Collection of Zurich University, Switzerland © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, new York
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