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Word: ashurnirari (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1934-1934
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...possibly because Sennacherib moved the records to Ninevah when he abandoned the Khorsabad palace after his father's death. The tablet he neglected to take along now furnishes the names of an unbroken succession of kings from the 23rd or 24th century B. C. down to one named Ashurnirari V (753-746 B. C.) When the tablet has been studied and photostated it will be returned to the Iraq Government, whose property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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