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Kolata, Alan L.
Profile of this University of Chicago Professor. Research interests include agroecological systems and human-environment interactions in Bolivia.
http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_kolata.shtml
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Society for the Study of Early China
Scholarly, non-political, and non-profit professional association interested in the culture and civilization of China from earliest times down to and including the period of the Han dynasty (A.D. 220).
http://ealc.uchicago.edu/earlychina/
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Center for Archaeology of Middle East Landscape (CAMEL)
At CAMEL we aim to analyze and understand this landscape by combining both traditional on-the-ground archaeological surveys with remote-sensing methods such as satellite imagery and air photo analysis.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/CAMEL/
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Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara
An electronic copy of excavation reports published by W.M. Flinders Petrie in 1890.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/eos/eos_title.pl?callnum=DT73.K3P5_cop1
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Who Was Who Among the Royal Mummies
Article by Professor Edward F. Wente analyzes the identifications and relationships of the royal mummies in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo; published by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/WENTE/NN_Win95/NN_Win95.html
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Studying the Mummy of Petosiris: A Preliminary Report
Addresses mummy studies generally, and the radiologic examination of the mummy of Petosiris at the University of Chicago Hospitals, a new joint venture to examine and document the Egyptian mummies in the collection of The Oriental Institute; by Dr. Louis
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/NN_SEP91/NN_Sep91.html
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The Demotic Dictionary Project
News and updates on an ongoing project to create a dictionary of the demotic script.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/DEM/Demotic.html
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Lacus Curtius
Bill Thayer's extensive collection of materials on ancient Rome. Includes a gazetteer of sites in the Roman Empire with annotated photographs of Roman monuments, classical texts and 19th-century archaeological and topographical works.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/
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A Gazetteer of the Roman World
This section of Bill Thayer's huge Lacus Curtius site provides many photographs of cities and monuments of the ancient Roman world, some with detailed commentary.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/
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The Giza Plateau Mapping Project
Research on the geology and topography of the Giza plateau, construction and function of the Sphinx, Great Pyramids, associated tombs and temples, and the Old Kingdom town in the vicinity.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GIZ/Giza.html
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