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Letters from dealer Ibrahim Elias Gejou show Kish tablets from Iraqi digs on offer to the British Museum in 1909, a UCL study reports. The date sits three years before the French dig of 1912, so the letters reach about 9% of a 32-year gap in official digging.
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Licensing International's art property category, which includes museums, grew over 8% last year, about a point ahead of the UK's $19.2bn licensing market. The 53% surge came in a wider attractions category, so museums weighing licensing against funding cuts are working from roughly market-rate growth.
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Rhineland archaeologists recovered 934 silver denarii near Wesseling, a hoard officials rank as Germany's largest of Hadrian's era and fifth worldwide. Most of the coins were struck under the Flavian emperors, decades before the Hadrian-era piece that dates the burial.
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Return to Vulci archaeologists excavated a 2,700-year-old Etruscan tomb inside a mound Stephane Gsell outlined in 1889 before running out of time and money. Early calculations suggest the mound may be more than twice the 31-meter width he estimated.
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The Senate Chancellery itemised four task forces, a housing crisis team, outside counsel and a contact point for staff, which tells any public body what the refusal path needs in people even though the price of it never appears.
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Edmonds and Frahm argue the Assyrian King List pruned short-lived and rival rulers. If so, a century of dating that assumed the list was complete needs re-checking.
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