In fact, you have entire departments of ancient near-eastern studies arise in modern universities, and they don't arise just because people are automatically interested in near-eastern cultures.

事实上，在现代大学里有一整个系，研究古代近东，它们的出现不是因为，人们对近东文化自动产生兴趣。

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Indeed one well-known monument site, known as Eflatun Pinar, holds a sacred pool that "is fed by a spring beneath the pool itself, " write Yigit Erbil and Alice Mouton in an article that was published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.

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Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies and associate professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Oklahoma, said Alawites live "cheek by jowl" near Sunnis in Homs, Hama and Idlib province in the west.

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