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... Semitic eyes . Ur was his birthplace ; but his ancestors were desert - folk who had migrated to the southern plain . By Dungi's time only the nobles were at all free from Semitic blood . Yet this sailor bore a Sumerian name , Enki - ilu ...
... Semitic eyes . Ur was his birthplace ; but his ancestors were desert - folk who had migrated to the southern plain . By Dungi's time only the nobles were at all free from Semitic blood . Yet this sailor bore a Sumerian name , Enki - ilu ...
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... Semitic ; even in the south the two peoples were thoroughly mixed . The last three kings of Ur - Engur's line bore Semitic names . But Sume- rian civilization triumphed throughout the land of the two rivers . From the very first the ...
... Semitic ; even in the south the two peoples were thoroughly mixed . The last three kings of Ur - Engur's line bore Semitic names . But Sume- rian civilization triumphed throughout the land of the two rivers . From the very first the ...
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... Semitic dominated , as in Babylonia . But the Semite blood was here commingled with that of a sturdy , fair - hued folk , the Subartu , and vitalized by intermarriage with the fighting Kurdish tribes in the eastern mountains . It was ...
... Semitic dominated , as in Babylonia . But the Semite blood was here commingled with that of a sturdy , fair - hued folk , the Subartu , and vitalized by intermarriage with the fighting Kurdish tribes in the eastern mountains . It was ...
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THE GREAT GATE OF RAMESES III AT MEDINETABU | 21 |
THUTMOSE III | 36 |
THE ZIGGURAt of Ur | 68 |
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