Sumerians and the Birth of Writing
The Ancients
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Do We Have Any Idea of the Last Moments of These People?
69 bodies were found in ther and these from analysis. And again, remembert the skeletons were preserved very, very poorly. But they appear to be all women. Do we have any idea from the archaeology that survived of how they died? Is there evidence of trome? I mean, as yeu said, this probably poor condition that they survive. We do now, again, thanks to modern technique, sai woolley himself came up with a sort of rather romantic tradition. So he imagines that everybody willingly takes poison and lays down to die,. To journey into the next world wit their king or queen. Their skulls were smashed in with axes. They were then embalmed
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