Babylon
The Ancients
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Are There Inscriptional Evidence in Babylon?
We didn't find anything like that in Babylon. So we were stuck really with a lot of huge number, thousands and thousands of cuneiform tablets that had arrived in the British Museum without any real provenance in Babylon. Of course, when the Germans started to excavate, they found more tablets, and those mostly went to the museum in Berlin. We're only just getting on top of it really now because it's been a huge job.
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