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Our picture of the Sumerians is skewed by the accident of what was dug up, and the people working with skewed material do not realise how skewed it is.

Drawn from what Irving Finkel said

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What Irving Finkel actually said

  1. Irving Finkel Assyriologist at the British Museum
    So our view of it is skewed by the nature of the material, and sometimes the material is opulent and benevolent, but not always, and sometimes the people who work with skewed material don’t even realize how skewed it is.

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