ocr: architecture, literature and philosophy, the ancient East was becoming Westernized. The cultural traffic was, of course, not just one- way, - and soon the religion, philosophy, literature and art of the West were to become influenced by the Oriental modes. But at least in art and architecture- those aspects of culture with which the archae- ologist is mostly concerned-itwas the East that was the more profoundly affected, and within a few centuries one language of artistic expression was to stretch from the Tiber to the Tigris and from the Black Sea to the Red. Itv was against this cultural bac ...
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