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  Cuneiform Tablet Restoration

  January 5, 2012 / Education, Technology
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  Narrated by Assistant Curator, Dr. Adam Aja, this video explores The Semitic Museum’s Cuneiform Tablet Restoration Project. These tablets were excavated from Nuzi (modern day Iraq). The Semitic Museum began this restoration project in 1999.         Narrated by Assistant Curator, Dr. Adam Aja, this video explores The Semitic Museum’s Cuneiform Tablet Restoration Project. These tablets were excavated from Nuzi (modern day Iraq). The Semitic Museum began this restoration project in 1999. Search terms:cuneiform tablets to narratela conservation [...]

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  Khipu Cords

  December 21, 2011 / Education, Experimental
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  This video illustrates the spinning and plying of cords on a khipu. All khipus displayed are photos taken by Dr. Clark Erickson at the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in December 2011. Additionally, KHIPUPROJECT drew the images in this video based on Harvard’s Khipu Database Project. Khipu are knotted textile record-keeping devices used by the Inkas. The Inka empire extended throughout the Andes and lasted from about 1400 A.D. until the Spanish Conquest of Peru in 1532. [...]

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  Revolutionising Egyptology

  December 19, 2011 / Education, Film & TV
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  Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts and Science Revolutionising Egyptology at Harvard  

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