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  Thursday  September 2  2004    11: 29 PM

perspective

Bob Harris has some interesting comments on his trip to Turkey.

Notes from a country which borders on Iraq


It's a whole other deal to stand in a museum here in Istanbul and look at the first known peace treaty in human history, signed in Akkadian (the lingua franca of the time) by representatives of the Hittite dynasty and Ramses II of Egypt. Like, right in front of you. There it is. Bam. The actual piece of clay they pressed their styli into.

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