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Four - Pioneers of the Western Desert

The Kharga Oasis in the Achaemenid Empire

from I - The Transformation of Rural Societies and Landscapes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2018

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Henry P. Colburn
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Bleda S. Düring
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The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes
A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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