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November 26

MesopotamianScience
  1. 1990 CEMesopotamian · died

    Samuel Noah Kramer, whose History Begins at Sumer carried the world's oldest literature to a wide readership, died on this day in 1990.

  2. 1922 CEScience · discovered

    Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon breached the sealed doorway of Tutankhamun's tomb and glimpsed by candlelight the gilded treasures preserved inside.

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