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History shows that such environmental destruction can have far-reaching consequences. The salinization of irrigated land led to the fall of Mesopotamia and Babylon, and perhaps even the Mayan civilization of Central America. Similar pressures are at work today. Sandra Postel of Worldwatch Institute estimates that 60 million hectares (nearly 150 million acres) of irrigated land worldwide have been damaged by salt buildup...
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...
...uncovered the lamassu, colossal, winged bull-men that guarded the palace entrances. One hundred years later, the site was extensively re-excavated by Max Mallowan, whose mystery-writing wife Agatha Christie kept an office at the Nimrud Digs House and composed portions of an Hercule Poirot novel, Murder in Mesopotamia, at the site...