Word: earrings
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Mesopotamia. At Kish, near Bagdad, the Oxford and Field Museum expedition (TIME, July 9), has found a magnificent Sumerian palace; a library of cuneiform tablets, containing grammars and dictionaries of the Sumerian and Babylonian languages; a bone stylus six inches long, the oldest known pen; and a solid gold earring and other jewelry from a clay coffin of the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Kish was one of the oldest Babylonian capitals, already the seat of four great dynasties before the age of Sargon...