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Edgar James Banks

Edgar Banks also started two movie companies, and climbed Mount Ararat in a search for Noah's Ark.

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Banks purchased many more cuneiform inscriptions from a dealer in Istanbul.

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The artifact, now famously known as Plimpton 322 (denoting that it is the 322nd item in the catalog), has provided great insight into the Babylonian era math.

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Banks was an antiquities enthusiast and entrepreneurial roving archaeologist in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire, who has been held up as an original for the fictional composite figure of Indiana Jones.

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