"The acquisition of monuments and works of art that were shipped to London, Paris and Berlin in the mid-nineteenth cen…"

"Since human civilisation was thought to originate in Mesopotamia, and this civilisation was transferred from the East…"

"Archaeology, like other human sciences such as anthropology and history, allowed a European mapping of the subjugated…"

"This obsessive desire to disassociate the past of the region from its present and to present it instead as a primitiv…"

"The image of Mesopotamia, upon which we still depend, was necessary for a march of progress from East to West, a conc…"

"Within this disciplinary organisation the term that came to be the acceptable name for Iraq in the Pre-Islamic period…"

"All the superior religions had their growth between the and the Euphrates."

"Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine; A small Euphrates thro' …"

"To the right is Manda ḏ-Hiia; he has erected a throne for Yušamin at the mouth of the Fraš-Ziwa (Euphrates)."

"All those who have done odious deeds will be seated here into the stocks, until the Euphrates dries up at its mouth a…"