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CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study
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Middle-eastern archaeologists are winning new information from declassified military photographs taken 25 years ago. This study shows how pictures of north-eastern Syria are revealing the routeways, and by inference the agricultural systems of Mesopotamia in the early Bronze Age.
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- Ur, J.
- Venue
- Antiquity
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- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 295
- Pages
- 102-115
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
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- W2037028543
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- 270
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- 145.36
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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