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Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...

These attachments and the Orientalizing cauldrons they adorned are thought to have had their origins in the Near East, specifically North Syria (2) or Urartu (3). Cauldrons found on the eastern ...