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The Jazira Project
Report of the Oriental Institute's geomorphological projects within the Jazira of Syria, Turkey and Iraq.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/JAZ/Jazira.html
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Oriental Institute Museum: Mesopotamia
Images and descriptions of objects in the University of Chicago center's collection.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OI_Museum_Mesopotamia.html
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The Joint Prehistoric Project
The Joint Prehistoric Project comprises several archaeological expeditions in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey dating from 1947. All of these separate excavations, however, sought the solution to a general problem: "How are we to understand those great change
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/PRE/Prehistoric.html
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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.
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031023/iran.shtml
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The Persian Expedition
Report of the Persian Expedition to conduct excavations by James Henry Breasted at the remains of Persepolis, an Achaemenid royal administrative center in the province of Fars.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/PER/Persian_Ex.html
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Iranian Prehistoric Project
Report of an ethnoarchaeological survey in Fars.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/FAR/Fars.html
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University of Chicago Returns Ancient Persian Tablets Loaned by Iran
From University of Chicago News Office, Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian Empire, to the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organ
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/04/040428.tablets.shtml
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The Chogha Mish Project
Excavations at Chogha Mish between 1961 and 1978.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/CHO/Chogha_Mish.html
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Excavations at Chogha Mish
Provided a long uninterrupted sequence of prehistoric Susiana, but also yielded evidence of cultures much earlier than what had been previously known, pushing back the date of human occupation on the plain for at least one millennium.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/ALIZADEH/NN_SPR97/NN_Spr97.html
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The Tall-e Bakun Project
Report on the excavations at Tall-e Bakun B by Alexander Langsdorff and Donald McCown in 1932, and later in 1937 by Eric Schmidt and McCown on behalf of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/BAK/Bakun.html
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