Illustration
A gold necklace with flying eagles and pendant discs. From modern-day Turkey. Hittite, 1400-1200 BCE. (The British Museum, London).
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Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.
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Amin, O. S. M. (2018, November 24). Hittite Gold Necklace. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9560/hittite-gold-necklace/
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