Letters reveal forgotten role of Baghdad antiquities dealers in early 20th-century Kish excavations
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- Between 1880 and 1912, no official excavations took place at Kish. Yet museums from London and Paris to New York were somehow acquiring brand-new tablets from the legendary old city. As it turns out, local Iraqis had been excavating the site years before the "official" excavations at Kish resumed.…