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The Goltepe/Kestel Project
This project is an investigation of a Bronze Age mining district and the associated town where metallurgical installations, including evidence for tin smelting have been discovered.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GOL/Goltepe.html
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University Archaeologists Return to Amuq
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 Tu
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040205/amuq.shtml
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Oriental Institute Archaeological and Environmental Investigation of Yemeni Terraced Agriculture
This ongoing project seeks to investigate the emergence of the Himyarite kingdom by recording the key factors that would have enabled the kingdom to develop terraced agriculture.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/YEM/Yemen.html
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Cultural Astronomy
A multimedia introduction to archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy suitable for K-12 teachers and students. Part of the University of Chicago's Digital Library.
http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/science/cultural_astronomy/
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Constructing the Giza Plateau Computer Model
Article which details the efforts to construct a computer model of the Giza Plateau and its architectural components from published maps, survey, and excavation reports.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/giz/comp_model.html
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Aerial Surveys of Persepolis and Ancient Iran
Includes aerial photographs of excavations in progress in 1936, of sites under consideration at that time, and of other areas of Iran that were archaeologically unknown in 1936.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/pa/persepolis/surveys.html
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Archaeological Site Modelling
Article from the Oriental Institute Computer Laboratory presenting the methods and uses of data acquisition, templates, and computer analysis for site modelling. Contains link to a computer model of the Giza Plateau as an example.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/lab/model/
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Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD)
A lexicographic tool for reading texts written in a late stage of the ancient Egyptian language and in a highly cursive script known as Demotic.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/cdd/
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The Oriental Institute and Epigraphy
The epigraphic survey of this institute of the University of Chicago was founded in 1924 and continues to record inscriptions and decoration on Ancient Egyptian monuments.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/epi/epigraphy.html
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Women in the Ancient Near East:
Bibliography of recent sources in The Oriental Institute Research Archives.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/WOMEN.HTML
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