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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.

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  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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