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    ANCIENT ACADEMIA

    Feb 03, 2020 2 minutes
    —DANIEL WEISS

    n some respects, the life of a Mesopotamian scholar in the seventh century B.C. was not so very different from that of a modern academic. While the former might be responsible for reporting on celestial phenomena and whether they augur well for the king’s reign, and the latter might be searching for evidence of a new subatomic particle to better understand the origins of the universe, in

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