"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 creation of a historical narrative in which space and time became transcendental horizons for the Being—Mesopotam…"

"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…"