Word: aleppo
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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Immediately upon the cessation of hostilities in the near east, Dr. James H. Breasted of the University of Chicago, at the head of an archaeological expedition, proceeded from Bagded to Aleppo, through the newly constituted Arab state, and now he returns to America with the announcement that he he has unearthed new tablets that "will make the Oriental Museum in the University of Chicago the finest of the kind in the United States." For a long time the University of Pennsylvania has held that place, its claims founded upon its discoveries in Babylonia and its possession of the Nippur tablets...