University Archaeologists Return to Amuq
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Description: Inundations and other natural disasters usually spell the end for important archaeological projects, but in a rare example of a fortuitous flood, the Oriental Institute is recovering important additional artifacts from a site abandoned 55 years ago in Turkey.
University archaeologists return to Amuq, discover tomb unlike others in Middle East University archaeologists return to Amuq, discover tomb unlike others in Middle East Aslihan Yener (above, right) inspects a burial site at Tell Atchana, the ancient Bronze Age capital, Alalakh, which is located in the Amuq region in southern Turkey. Yener and a team of Oriental Institute archaeologists, including David Schloen, Associate Professor in the Oriental Institute, recovered artifacts at this site, which included the burial of four humans. Unlike any other tomb discovered in the Middle East, this burial consisted of a plaster-arched structure on a cobblestone foundation. Clay tile headstones were stacked four high in two columns, explained Yener, and a level of plaster separated each person from the other.
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