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...expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos, lower down; Sakkara and Cairo, at the delta; in Asia Minor, Megiddo, on the Jordan; Calneh, at the Eastern tip of the Mediterranean. Leaving the crescent, an offshoot expedition has settled in Alishar, halfway between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Inland on the Tigris is the Khorsabad expedition, near the site of Nineveh; down the Tigris in ancient Babylonia, the neighboring expeditions at Tell Asmar and Khafaji. From these strategic points the Oriental Institute can send out small parties to other sites. Thus...
Into Asia Minor Dr. Breasted has followed his upward-struggling human animal, to uncover layer upon layer of successive towns-"layer cakes of civilization"-over a range of 5,000 years. By this time man had learned to write in cuneiforms, and in cuneiform tablets at Alishar Dr. Breasted brought to light the last remnants of Hittite speech. Meanwhile the Egyptians were going forward, had learned to write on the sides of their cedar coffins. Texts of these writings which the Institute has been translating for nine years, reveal, says Dr. Breasted, "the dawn of conscience." In Sakkara...
Angora, capital of new Turkey, formed the base of the Hittite Expedition of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. From there to Alishar is a day's journey by train and horse. At Alishar, rare and well-preserved examples of Hittite culture were unearthed in a mound twelve layers deep, one dead city atop its dead predecessor. Out of the dusty ruins were dug instruments for which the diggers could find no obvious use. The peasants thereabout still living in a partly Stone Age condition solved the difficulties by exhibiting some of their own utensils of husbandry...
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