Word: nineveh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 it has at its finger tips the whole of Asia Minor, the entire Valley of the Nile. From them...
Oldtime campaigners when approached with the question as to whom they would nominate as champion hunter of Greene County usually designate Donald Henderson of Nineveh and Elza Shiver of Spraggs. There are no necessary qualifications for captaincy of competing teams except that the candidate must be one of the "gang" and a leader in affairs of the countryside...