"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…"

"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…"

"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…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"The Corn Belt is a gift of the gods—the rain god, the sun god, the ice god and the gods of geology. In the middle of …"