Yale Professors Write Guide to the Archaeology and History of Iraq; "Iraq Beyond the Headlines," an illustrated 275-page book.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-23 December 2005-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale Professors Write Guide to the Archaeology and History of Iraq; "Iraq Beyond the Headlines," an illustrated 275-page book(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22122005 New Haven, Conn. - In this illustrated 275-page book, titled "Iraq Beyond the Headlines," Benjamin R.

Foster and Karen Polinger Foster of Yale University and Patty Gerstenblith of DePaul University provide a concise and readable account of Iraq's rich history and sound an alarm for the toll the war has taken on the country's archaeological treasures. In Chapters 1-13, Benjamin Foster, the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, presents a vivid and highly readable history of a region to which much of Western...