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...and concern. Working at first independently and then, in the first half of the 20th century, under the aegis of the government-sponsored École Française d’Extrême Orient (French School of the Far East), a group of French archaeologists and philologists initiated a comprehensive program of research, which yielded much of the knowledge now possessed about the history of...
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