Scribes et érudits dans l’orbite de Babylone. Collections – Expositions The portrait

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necropolis of the dynasty of the Dukes of Valois

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Scribes et érudits dans l’orbite de Babylone. Collections – Expositions The portraitBetween 1600 and 1200 BC, six empires alternated in the Near East: in Mesopotamia, Kassite Babylonia and Assyria; in northern Mesopotamia and Syria, Mittanni; in Iran, Elam; in the southern Levant, Egypt; and in Anatolia and Syria, atti. This period marked the peak of the spread of Mesopotamian writing and languages: the international language was Akkadian, and in every major court there were scribes trained in Mesopotamian written culture. As part of