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Joseph Svoboda: Selling Clay Tablets in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad
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Joseph Svoboda: Selling Clay Tablets in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad

ByNadia Ghanem 2 July 202117 June 2022

The diaries of steamship officer and artefact trader Joseph Svoboda reveal both the personal and political sides of archeological trading in the late 19th t early 20th centuries.

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Ibrahim Elias Gejou and Old Babylonian Omens
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Ibrahim Elias Gejou and Old Babylonian Omens

ByNadia Ghanem 6 May 202126 July 2022

Post-doctoral fellow, Dr Nadia Ghanem, examines the life and work of Ibrahim Elias Gejou who sold almost 18,000 artefacts (cuneiform clay tablets, steeles and amulets) to the British Museum alone.

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