Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scholars theorize that the civilization being investigated, called Bactrian, may have been a "crossroads" on the Silk Road between China and Mesopotamia...
Lamberg-Karlovsky's excavation is just one of a number of research sites in the Soviet Union that appear to indicate the existence of an ancient civilization equal in complexity to those found in the Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, Egypt and China--considered the four centers of Bronze Age culture...
...suspect that given the evidence of this urban Bronze Age that we know already to have some connections with the Indus Vally civilization and Mesopotamia, it is not unreasonable to think that it may have had a linkage further to the east in China," says Lamberg-Karlovsky...