Directory > Science > Social Sciences > Archaeology > Regional > Middle East > Iraq An Early Achaemenid Administrative Text from Uruk Translation, transliteration, and drawing ot tablet. http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlb/2004/cdlb2004_001.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Nineveh: Babylonian Texts The British Museum's Ashurbanipal Library Project focused on the Babylonian texts from Nineveh (Kouyunjik) is investigating the kind of Babylonian compositions the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE) ordered to include into his royal library and their relation to the rest of the Kouyunjik Collection and to the king's collecting activities http://assyriologie.uni-hd.de/fincke/nineveh/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Nippur - Sacred City of Enlil Archeological findings, this article originally appeared in Al-Rafidan, Vol. XIV, 1993. http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/PUB93/NSC/NSC.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Comets, Meteors, and Myths From Space.com, suggests evidence that a giant comet impact and associated meteor storms could have wiped out early civilizations and caused a great flood. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/comet_bronzeage_011113-1.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Picking Up the Pieces in Baghdad From The Art Newspaper, Iraqi museum conservators are to receive intensive training at the British Museum to help them restore their damaged objects. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11361 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Sumerian Mona Lisa' Recovered From Hiding Place in Orchard The Lady of Warka, one the two most precious relics looted from the Iraqi National Museum in chaos after the April 9 fall of Baghdad, has been recovered by U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police. http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.recovered.ap/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Kill Looters, Urges Archaeologist From Guardian Unlimited, an American archaeologist urged her compatriots to kill the looters who are pillaging archaeological sites in Iraq. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,994460,00.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Modern Warfare Blights Iraq's Ancient Past Renewed conflict could boost looting of Mesopotamia, archaeologists fear. http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20021127/UANTIOO/International/int.... Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Treasure Under Saddam's Feet From Discover, as the waters of the Tigris rise and the world awaits war, archaeologists fear for priceless ancient marvels of the first great empire http://www.discover.com/oct_02/feattreasure.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Iraq: Archaeological Expedition Mapping Ancient City Of Uruk German archaeologists working in Iraq have made a partial map of the ancient site of Uruk and discovered that some of its features are just as described in the Sumerian epic poem "The Song of Gilgamesh." http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2002/05/03052002101632.asp Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Iraq Appeals to Berlin for Return of Babylon Gate From the Guardian, Iraq urges Germany today to return chunks of Babylon shipped to Berlin at the beginning of the last century in a heritage seizure which makes Britain's removal of the Parthenon Marbles look tame. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,709809,00.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Tigris Dam Damns Assur From the Art Newspaper, the Iraqi government is building a dam which will obliterate the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9394 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Marcodeo's homepage Translations of Neo-assyrian historical texts, bibliographies, abbreviations, and other things assyriological. http://www.geocities.com/marcodeo Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Akkadian and Post-Akkadian Periods A study outline with images and maps of the Third Dynasty of Ur. http://courses.unc.edu/clar047/sg3Ak-Ur3.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Agade A short description of the ancient city of Agade. http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/archaeology/sites/middle_east/agade.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire By gathering all available data on persons and personal names in the Neo-Assyrian period, PNA is a research tool that makes this large body of information accessible to Assyriologists and scholars in related fields. http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/pna.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur Museum exhibit with archived information about C. Leonard Woolley's excavation of the royal tombs at Ur. Related images. Discussion of Woolley's theory of the Great Flood. http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites since the Gulf War. Illustrated feature by John M. Russell in Archaeology includes clickable map of the throne room suite. http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/nineveh/index.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Ur 3D computer reconstructions of Ur. http://www.taisei.co.jp/cg_e/ancient_world/ur/aur.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Nippur Expedition A description of University of Chicago excavations at Nippur. Includes: annual reports, articles and images. http://asmar.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/Nippur.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project Project collecting all published and non-published Assyrian texts to make them available on-line. http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/cna.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Khorsabad Excavations A report of the excavations by the Oriental Institute at Khorsabad from 1928 to 1935. http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/KHO/Khorsabad_Ex.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Diyala Miscellaneous Objects Publication Project This project is the final pre-publication work on a two-volume set that will complete the presentation of base data from the 1930-38 in the Diyala River basin of northeast of Baghdad. http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/DIY/Diyala1.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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