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Assyrians making mud bricks beside the Khabur at Tel Tamer

Place: Tel Tamer · today Syria
Date: 1937

Men dig clay and stack rows of sun-dried mud bricks on the bank of the Khabur river, with the mound of Tel Tamer behind them. The caption dates the photo to 1937 and credits a 2019 book drawing on the Royal Society for Asian Affairs archives.

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Assyrians making mud bricks beside the Khabur at Tel Tamer

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