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The 2003- Iraq War and Archaeology - http://iwa.univie.ac.at
Francis Deblauwe gathers articles and information about the impact of the war on the archaeological remains in Iraq, including the losses from looting. |
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Iraq Museum International - http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/
The history and cultural heritage of Iraq. Invites the active participation of the Iraq reconstruction community as well as students, professors, professionals and cultural enthusiasts from all countries. |
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Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III - http://international.loc.gov/intldl/cuneihtml/cuneihome.html
Clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient pictographic writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of Congress’ collections. |
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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur - http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur.htm
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. |
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The Nippur Expedition - http://asmar.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NIP/Nippur.html
A description of University of Chicago excavations at Nippur. Includes: annual reports, articles and images. |
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Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project - http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/cna.html
Project collecting all published and non-published Assyrian texts to make them available on-line. |
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Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh - http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/nineveh/index.html
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. |
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An Early Achaemenid Administrative Text from Uruk - http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlb/2004/cdlb2004_001.html
Translation, transliteration, and drawing ot tablet. |
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The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire - http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/pna.html
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. |
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Iraq Appeals to Berlin for Return of Babylon Gate - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,709809,00.html
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. |
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Museum Madness in Baghdad - http://www.meforum.org/article/609
Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2004. April 2003, during the mayhem that followed the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, looters entered the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad, and stole or destroyed artifacts. In the confusion, no one outside Iraq knew exactly what was taken or the identity of the thieves. |
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Agade - http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/archaeology/sites/middle_east/agade.html
A short description of the ancient city of Agade. |
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Kill Looters, Urges Archaeologist - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,994460,00.html
From Guardian Unlimited, an American archaeologist urged her compatriots to kill the looters who are pillaging archaeological sites in Iraq. |
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Lyre of Ur - http://www.lyre-of-ur.co.uk/
Non-profit organization researching the background and the making of the original instrument. Includes drawings and photos. [English, German and French] |
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Comets, Meteors, and Myths - http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/comet_bronzeage_011113-1.html
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. |
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Airmen, Iraqis Dig Up Ancient Site - http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007778
Iraqi archeologists have determined the air base has at least one site with artifacts dating back to between 1200 B.C. and 2600 B.C. |
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Akkadian Healing Therapies in the Babylonian Talmud - http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P259.PDF
A preprint version of an article by M. J. Geller of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Geller proposes utilising the Babalonian Talmud as an account of then current Akkadian cultureal practaces. |
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Enheduanna, Daughter of King Sargon: Princess, Poet, Priestess - http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/0108/roberts-enheduanna.html
Transoxiana 8. Portrait of a Near Eastern woman, in 2300 B.C. Enheduanna represented a strong and creative personality, an educated woman, and one who fulfilled diverse roles in a complex society, not unlike women's aspirations today. |
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Iraqi Police Recover Stolen Artifacts in Sting Operation - http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=CD46F085-327D-4A44-9EE002921B40ADDC
From Voice of America, security officials in Iraq say a sting operation has recovered hundreds of stolen artifacts destined for overseas black markets. |
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Diyala Miscellaneous Objects Publication Project - http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/DIY/Diyala1.html
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. |