Near East

Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: Edith Porada

Aspects of Elamite Art and Archaeology

In Sumerian texts we read about the coun­try NIM, the wondrous mountain area which we call Iran today. The biblical […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 3-4

By: T. Cuyler Young, Jr.

The Search for Understanding: Excavating the Second Millennium

Iran is a large country with a rich historic and prehistoric past. Archaeologists are making a beginning at understanding that […]

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Vol. 13 / No. 2

By: Erle Lichty

Demons and Population Control

One of the major problems in the study of dead civilizations is the lack of native informants. Without such informants […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 3

By: Theresa Howard Carter

The Stone Spirits

Early in the 1964 season of excavations at Tell al-Rimah one of our Bedouin excavators, a colorful Shammar tribesman, brought […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 3

By: Erle Leichty

A Remarkable Forger

A few years ago Professor Aaboe of Yale University and Professor Sachs of Brown Univer­sity dedicated an article to a most […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 3

By: David Crownover

Alfred Bendiner and Iraq

Architect and artist, “Al” Bendiner, as a full gen­eration of The University Museum called him, served at various times on […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 1

By: Gayle Wever

A Persian Puzzle: A Bronze Sword from Teheran

The ability to recognize modem alterations and outright forgeries is important to all students of archaeology. Consequently, in its training […]

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Vol. 12 / No. 1

By: George F. Dales and Louis Flam

On Tracking Woolly Kullis and the Like

Archaeology is a many-faced deity. It (she?) can smile benevolently upon you and order gold and fame to be rained […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 2

By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.

A Decade in Iran

The establishment of a basic chronology consisting of broadly defined cultural phases from the earliest village settlements to the begin­ning […]

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Vol. 11 / No. 1

By: James B. Pritchard

The Palace of Tell es-Sa’idiyeh

Since we began to excavate at Tell es-Sa’idiyeh in 1964 not a season has gone by without our gaining some […]

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