BREAKING NEWS! Published first by Chaldean Nation A new project, “Ur of the Chaldees: A Virtual Vision of Woolley’s Excavations,” will combine all available information about each of the objects, along with the extensive maps, drawings, photographs, and archival field records that provide essential context, in a rich, searchable website that will bring out the Ur story as fully as possible PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The British Museum and the Penn Museum are embarking on a dynamic digital collaboration, made possible with $1.28 million in lead support from the Leon Levy Foundation that will provide unprecedented access to the archaeology of the ancient kingdom of Ur. This new online resource will open the remarkably successful Mesopotamian excavations conducted by Sir Leonard Woolley on behalf of both museums from 1922–1934—excavations which brought to light some of archaeology’s most extraordinary and famous finds—to scholars and the public alike
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:20:39 +0000
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