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By Victor Hurowitz

Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near East 1500–300 B.C.

Olof Pedersén
(Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1998) 291 pp., $42

Everyone has a different way of displaying books and keeping papers. These habits teach much about the people to whom these writings belong and the purposes the documents serve. Have you ever wondered how, in antiquity, people managed their libraries and kept their archives?

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