What is clear, is that around 4, 000 years ago, horses were being harnessed in the Near East.
It also expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
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Its golden fleet sailed the seas, bringing Chinese exports of porcelain, tea, lacquer ware, and precious metals to Japan and the Near East.
As in years past, the houses wind down with sales of Old Master paintings and antiquities from Europe, Africa, and the Near East.
Farming began independently in a number of different parts of the world, but it was the Near East that pioneered farming for much of Europe.
Since then, it has been the basis for waves of migrations from the Near East into Europe, most notably the founding and expansion of Ashkenazi Jewish populations.
With the sudden arrival of cooler, drier and less predictable seasons, early human attempts at agriculture in the Near East ceased, and people returned to nomadic hunting and gathering.
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Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, best known as UNRWA. There, on UNRWA's home page, as of this writing, is a photo of the U.N.
Under that theory, hunter-gatherers in Europe would have learned about new farming techniques from the originators in the Near East and switched over on their own to the new lifestyle.
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About 10, 000 years ago, modern humans discovered how to make knives out of copper, and around 5, 000 years ago, craftsmen in the Near East began to make them out of bronze.
But studies of the DNA of farmers living in Europe some 5, 000 to 8, 000 years ago often show affinities with modern-day peoples in the Near East and Turkey, while appearing different from earlier hunter-gatherer populations.
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The ground troops have engaged Republican Guard forces to the west near Karbala and to the east near Kut, according to reports from correspondents in the field.
"We thought for a long time about what to call the exhibit, " explained Ralf Wartke, deputy director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East, whose collection is housed in the Pergamon.
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The map below shows the cooler waters in the tropical Atlantic with anomalously warm water in the Gulf of Mexico and near the East Coast.
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Violence has been particularly fierce in the south, where U.S. Marines have targeted the militants, and in the east near the Pakistani border, where American soldiers have been operating.
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Meanwhile, the poor old Near East seems to have disappeared, along with the second world, though the third world is still with us.
He served as senior trade development representative in the Africa, Near East, South Asia (ANESA) region during the Reagan Administration.
The rig was working on what will be a 25-story building near the East River in Queens' Long Island City neighborhood, behind a large neon Pepsi-Cola sign that serves as a local landmark.
Another problem is the people of Afghanistan, said Frank Anderson, president of the Middle East Policy Council and former chief of the CIA's Near East and South Asia division.
Michael Singh, managing director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said the result reflects polarized politics in Israel.
The Director-General also took part in a round table at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, addressing the psychological and emotional trauma of Syrian refugee children and UNESCO's response in addressing their needs through the development of specific tools for teacher training in post-conflict and post-disaster situations.
Michael Eisenstadt, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, warns that the elusive loyalists may be planning a campaign of guerrilla resistance.
Livingstone was instrumental in helping win the Games in 2005, and both candidates have claimed credit for the regeneration of east London near the Olympic site.
Michael Eisenstadt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Andrew Bacevich of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies collaborated in a separate study of the role the U.S. can play in supporting a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement sponsored by the Washington Institute.
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Morsi has served as a central behind-the-scenes player for much of the past decade, Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy writes in a column for The New Republic.
Morsi has served as a central behind-the-scenes player for much of the past decade, Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy wrote in a column for The New Republic.
Many of you are assembling in or near the Middle East, and some crucial hours may lay ahead.
From a speech by Martin Indyk, Special Assistant to the President for Near East and South Asian Affairs, 20 May 1993.
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