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    The Sulaymaniyah Museum (Kurdish: مۆزه‌خانه‌ی سلێمانی; Arabic: متحف السليمانية), or Slemani Museum, is an archeological museum located in Sulaymaniyah in...
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    Sulaymaniyah or Slemani (Kurdish: سلێمانی, romanized: Silêmanî; Arabic: السليمانية, romanized: as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan...
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    Sulaymaniyah Governorate (Sorani Kurdish: پارێزگای سلێمانی; Kurmanji Kurdish: Parêzgeha Silêmaniyê; Arabic: محافظة السليمانية) or Sulaymaniyah Province...
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    Ur, Iraq. 2004–1595 BCE. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq Terracotta mask of Humbaba from Ur, Iraq. 2004–1595 BCE. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq Terracotta plaquette...
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    Iraq. The Sulaymaniyah Museum Bulla, Spahbed of Nemroz, General of the Southern Quarter, Sassanian, 6th century AD, from Iraq. Sulaymaniyah Museum Bulla,...
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    the heart of Mawlawi Street of the downtown of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The museum is owned by the Revival of Kurd's Heritage Organisation...
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    Iraqi Kurdistan. It is the second largest museum in Iraqi Kurdistan, after the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Sulaymaniyah Governorate in terms of contents and collections...
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    Iraq Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq Iraq portal Sulaymaniyah Museum Erbil Civilization Museum Basrah Museum Art of Mesopotamia Lyres of Ur Taha Baqir Damage...
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     K. Loftus in the early 1850s. Late in the following decade, the British Museum hired George Smith to study these; in 1872, Smith read translated fragments...
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    0983083; 45.5905417). These inscribed stone blocks are now in the Sulaymaniyah Museum; the field only contains the stones that were used in the construction...
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    edge of the Shahrizor Plain, 30 kilometers southeast of the city of Sulaymaniyah. Geographically close, but older than Jarmo, the village survived between...
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sumerian earrings with cuneiform inscriptions, 2093–2046 BC, gold, Sulaymaniyah Museum, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq Minoan...
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    was produced in the early 1870s by George Smith, a scholar at the British Museum, who published the Flood story from Tablet XI in 1880 under the title The...
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    September 2012. Sayce 1911, p. 104. H. W. F. Saggs (2000). Babylonians. British Museum Press. p. 117. Sayce 1911, p. 105. "World Wide Sechool". History of Phoenicia –...
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    which he cuts his way through the mountains of the east at dawn (British Museum) A stele of Hammurabi depicting Shamash (right) Old Babylonian cylinder...
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    An informative stele of Tiglath-Pileser III is preserved in the British Museum. Two steles built into the walls of a church are major documents relating...
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    period. According to an inscription (the stela now located in the Sulaymaniyah Museum), Iddi(n)-Sin seems to have been contemporary with the Lullubi king...
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  • (football club) Sulaymaniyah Governorate Sulaymaniyah incident Sulaymaniyah International Airport Sulaymaniyah Mosque Sulaymaniyah Museum Sulaymaniyah Stadium...
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    The Mosul Museum (Arabic: متحف الموصل) is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. It was heavily looted during...
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    story". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-07-22. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan Moran, William L. (1991). "Epic of Gilgamesh: A...
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    (ISIL) in 2015 but has been since restored. It now stands in the National Museum of Damascus, but it may be returned to Palmyra in the future. Asherah Banu...
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    earrings with cuneiform inscriptions, 2093–2046 BC; gold; Sulaymaniyah Museum (Sulaymaniyah, Iraq) Sumerian necklaces and headgear discovered in the royal...
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    excavations in Africa and the Middle East, most recently with the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraqi Kurdistan. He is the author of three books and numerous...
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    1961 - Sulaymaniyah Museum established. 1967 - 11 May: Sulaymaniyah Chamber of Commerce and industry founded. 1968 - University of Sulaymaniyah established...
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    of Ur Old Babylonian fired clay plaque from Ur on display in the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq depicting a goddess accompanied by Nanna’s symbol, the lunar...
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    cuneiform tablets of the Kassite period were recovered, now in the Iraq Museum. Some were date-able to the reigns of Burna-Buriash II and Kashtiliash IV...
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    Sanatruq I.From Hatra. Erbil Civilization Museum Door lintel from Hatra. 2nd-3rd century AD. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan Hatra has a hot semi-arid...
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    Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium Middle East Basra Museum, Iraq Iraq Museum, Baghdad, Iraq Mosul Museum, Iraq Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq...
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    Nimrud ivories (category Middle Eastern sculptures in the British Museum)
    Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 28 pieces from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi...
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    Lulubum, now the Sharazor plain of the Zagros Mountains of modern-day Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. Lullubi was neighbour and sometimes ally with the...
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