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2015 Salopek, Paul, “Fleeing Terror, Finding Refuge.” National Geographic, March 2015, pp. 48-71 Madeleine Amberger, “Archäologische Spurensuche aus dem All.” Schweitzer Radio und Fernsehen, 6 March 2015. [ web] [ listen online] 2014 Lawler, Andrew,...

Irrigation Landscapes in the Heartland of the Assyrian Empire The kings of the Assyrian Empire, particularly Sennacherib (ruled 704-688 BC), created huge irrigation systems to support their new capitals at Nimrud and Nineveh. Previous investigations of...

Urban Origins at Tell Brak, NE Syria (2003-2006) Until recently, the idea of urbanism in northern Mesopotamia was thought to be a southern Mesopotamian export which only became prevalent toward the end of the 3rd millennium BC (ca. 2600 BC). Excavation...

In 1995, President Clinton declassified 800,000 photographs from CORONA, the United States’ first spy satellite program, in order to make them available for environmental and historical research. Subsequently, a further declassification has released...