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…international crew embarked upon the Tigris expedition, a four-month 4,000-mile (6,400-km) voyage in a craft made of reeds. The expedition began on the Tigris River in Iraq, traveled down the Persian Gulf and across the Arabian Sea to Pakistan, and ended in the Red Sea. The goal of the Tigris…
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