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Group News
Welcome to Meso's newest scribe!
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Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
dateline: Dec 29, 2004 - 10:47
"The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's celebrated, nationally-traveling exhibition—returns, for a limited engagement, to its Philadelphia home this spring and summer before traveling to additional sites. More than 200 ancient Sumerian treasures from the site of Ur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq, see map) go on special display in the Dietrich Gallery at the Penn Museum from March 13 through May 28, 2005."
You can visit the exhibition site here.
{Note: thanks to Marduk Hammurabi for the info and link!} by: Caileadair Etana |
