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The Glorious Sumerians

                  Sumer was a collection of city-states around the lower Tigris and
               Euphrates in what is now southern Iraq. In our day, the terrain that some-
               one travelling to southern Iraq would most frequently encounter is noth-
               ing but vast desert. Most of the land, with the exception of cities, and























































                    Queen Puabi may have been buried together with treasures beyond coun-
                    ting, but that did not save her body from being reduced to a skeleton.


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