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Travels and researches in Chaldaea and Susiana : with an account of excavations at Warka, the 'Erech' of Nimrod, and Shúsh, 'Shushan the Palace' of Esther, in 1849-52
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ISBN: 1139923366 1108077455 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book contains two works by William Kennett Loftus (1821-58) in which he describes his archaeological surveying and excavations in Mesopotamia between 1849 and 1855. An enthusiastic antiquarian and geologist, Loftus was appointed to the staff of the Turco-Persian Frontier Commission. On his travels, he located many ruins later identified as biblical cities, including Warkah (Uruk) and Tell el-Muqayyar (Ur). In 1854 Loftus was enabled by the newly formed Assyrian Excavation Fund to return to Warkah, and he excavated over a three-month period, discovering artefacts and cuneiform tablets which he sent to the British Museum. His Travels and Researches, describing his work in Mesopotamia up to 1852, was published in 1857, and his short account of his later work at Warkah in 1859, after his early death. These texts remain a record of the first discoveries in a region significant for its biblical history, but previously hardly visited by Europeans.

The materials and technology of glazed ceramics from the Deh Luran Plain, Southwestern Iran : a study in innovation
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ISBN: 1841717460 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

Excavations at the prehistoric mound of Chogha Bonut, Khuzestan, Iran : seasons 1976/77, 1977/78, and 1996
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ISBN: 1885923236 9781885923233 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago, Illinois. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Association with the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization,


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Prehistoric settlement patterns and cultures in Susiana, Southwestern Iran : the analysis of the F.G.L. Gremliza survey collection
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ISBN: 0915703297 Year: 1992 Volume: 24 Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Publications Department,

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