Archaeology
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- Conference on Iran Shows Scientific Interest in Iranian World
- From Payvand, an international congress on "The Iron Age in the Iranian World" was held with "big success" in the historical Belgian city of Ghent this week, IRNA reported from Brussels. (November 22, 2003)
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- Western Team Allowed in Iran for Expedition
- From Chicago Chronicle, for the first time since 1979, a University archaeological expedition has begun digging in southwest Iran, an area known as Khuzestan. (October 23, 2003)
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- 3rd Season of Excavation Gets Underway
- From Payvand, third season of archaeological excavation gets underway in Takab, West Azarbaijan. (September 28, 2003)
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- Dahaneh-Gholaman is the gate to Iran's history of Sassanid and Islamic eras
- Located in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, the city of Dahaneh-Gholaman two kms from Ghal'e-Nau village in the suburb of Zabol is one of the provincial touristic attractions. (March 20, 2003)
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- Restoration of Neishabour historical site
- Deputy Head of Khorassan province Cultural Heritage Department for research Rajab-Ali Labbaf-Khaniki declared here on Wednesday a recently-approved project on restoration of the historical site in the ancient city of Neishabour. (February 03, 2003)
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- Museum Stumbles on Lost Treasures
- From News Telegraph, two 4,500-year-old gold head-dresses from ancient Sumer have been found in a store room at the British Museum where they had lain wrongly labelled for 73 years. (July 10, 2002)
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- Dark Age Dumfries and Galloway
- Online exhibition from Dumfries and Galloway Museums and Galleries of early Christian sites and carved crosses, with a clickable map of sites.
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- Orkney Archaeology Society
- History of the society, information on membership, archaeological activity in Orkney and a calendar of events.
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- Demolition May Unearth City's History
- From BBC, archaeologists hope to find important traces of medieval life in Edinburgh as fire-damaged buildings in the are dismantled. (December 13, 2002)
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- Wikipedia - Shahr-i Sokhta
- Encyclopedic entry for Shahr-e Sukhteh or Shahr-i Sokhta(literally Burnt City), a Bronze Age urban settlement in the southeast of Iran.
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- Akkadian Healing Therapies in the Babylonian Talmud
- 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. [PDF]
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- Human Sacrifice Was Common in Burnt City
- From Iran News, 5000-year-old burnt city, in eastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, sacrificing human beings was a common practice in ancient times. (December 27, 2004)
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- An Early Achaemenid Administrative Text from Uruk
- Translation, transliteration, and drawing of tablet.
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- World's Oldest Backgammon Discovered In Burnt City
- From Iran News, Iranian archeologists working on the relics of the 5,000-year-old civilization argue this backgammon is much older than the one already discovered in Mesopotamia and their evidence is strong enough to claim the board game was first played in the Burnt City and then transferred to other civilizations. (December 04, 2004)
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- Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III
- 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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- Enheduanna, Daughter of King Sargon: Princess, Poet, Priestess
- 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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- Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
- Project collecting all published and non-published Assyrian texts to make them available on-line.
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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.