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A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...

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