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...nicknamed "The Natural." For fans, his endurance, toughness and proficiency embodies mixed martial arts, the technical name of the sport. Such is his fame that he is now making a foray into movies, with a lead role in Universal's The Scorpion King: The Rise of the Akkadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ultimate Fighting's Ultimate Fight | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

Certainly course enrollments at Harvard should not be an unfettered free market. We need requirements in order to meet our educational goals. We do not want competition between courses based on price, or on grading, or on workload. And some courses, Akkadian 153: “Old Akkadian” for example, we want to teach because we are agents of cultural preservation, not because they will ever interest many students...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, | Title: Shopping for an Education | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

...some priceless pieces are already known to be missing. Among them: a 3-ft. carved alabaster vase, circa 3200 B.C.; a black, headless statue of the Sumerian King Entemena, circa 2430 B.C.; a Sumerian sacred cup, circa 2600 B.C.; a copper head of an Akkadian ruler, circa 2350 B.C.; and a gold lyre from Ur, circa 2500 B.C. What else might be gone is anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad's Treasure: Lost To The Ages | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...significance of Iraq’s ancient civilizations—Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian—extends beyond the Judeo-Christian tradition...

Author: By Lindsey E. Mccormack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ancient Treasures Lost | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...DAWN OF CIVILIZATION Sumerian and Akkadian eras, circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Up Close | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

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