Word: mesopotamians
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...sages, Dr. James Henry Breasted, Orientalist of the University of Chicago and Dr. George Aaron Barton, Semitist of the University of Pennsylvania, debated on which was the older civilization, Egyptian or Mesopotamian. Dr. Breasted said that the Egyptians' technical attainments in medicine, art, science, sculpture and social organization predicted a civilization already ancient 5,500 years ago. Pharaohs mined copper in the Sinai Peninsula as early as 3400 B. C. Dr. Barton suavely pointed out that the Sumerians in Babylonia made gold and silver objects as early as 3500 B. C. and more beautiful than anything produced in Egypt...
...Mesopotamian Sculpture and Painting", Professor G. H. Chase, New Fogg Lecture Room...
...Mesopotamian Sculpture and Painting," Professor Chase, Fogg Museum, Fine Arts...
...girl, she was by title only Oriental secretary to Sir Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak was in sober truth her realm...
...Europe, returning in ample time for his 48th birthday on May 1 and for last week's meeting of his stockholders. He brought back with him positive arrangements for U. S. oil companies to partake with British, French and Dutch concerns in the exploitation of the Mesopotamian oil regions...