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[AndhraNews.net - News & Feature Updates] Now, the story of Persian Empire retold digitally: The tablets being digitized come from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, some 30,000 administrative tablets and fragments that Oriental Institute archaeologists recovered in 1933 at Persepolis, the ruined palaces where the kings of the ancient Persian Empire held court. ince 1936, they have been on loan from Iran to the Oriental Institute for analysis and recording.

[Fossil and Archaeology News] The story of ancient Persia gets digitized (5/2/2009): The tablets being digitized come from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, some 30,000 administrative tablets and fragments that Oriental Institute archaeologists recovered in 1933 at Persepolis, the ruined palaces where the kings of the ancient Persian Empire held court. Since 1936 they have been on loan from Iran to the Oriental Institute for analysis and recording.

[CHN English-RSS] CHN | News: According to an Oriental Institute report, the tablets are being recorded and distributed with digital processes to provide researchers with detailed information on the Persian Empire. The project started in 2007 and will be complete by .

[heritage hands] heritage hands » “Oriental Institute takes Persian Empire into ...: The tablets being digitized come from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, some 30,000 administrative tablets and fragments that Oriental Institute archaeologists recovered in 1933 at Persepolis, the ruined palaces where the kings of the ancient Persian Empire held court. Since 1936, they have been on loan from Iran to the Oriental Institute for analysis and recording.

[Library News for Rare Books] Library News for Rare Books: Rare Books in the News: May 2, 2009: University of Chicago scientists they've digitally recorded thousands of ancient Persian tablets that tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian Empire. Researchers from the university's Oriental Institute, led by institute Director Gil Stein, said the tablets present texts in impressed cuneiform characters, while other have inked texts in Aramaic.

[digital] Chicago University Digitalizing Persepolis Tablets: Persepolis Tablets Cultural Heritage News, Iran According to an Oriental Institute report, the tablets are being recorded and distributed with digital processes to provide researchers with detailed information on the Persian Empire.

[Stones, Bones ”˜n Things] Stones, Bones ”˜n Things - Should Iran Treasure Be Held for Ransom ...: Sure, the tablets should be held by the courts...and the millions of victims of the US brutality, including the victims of the chemical weapons provided to Saddam Hussein by the US, and the victims of the Iranian civilian airliner shot down by the US navy, and the victims of the CIA-trained Shah's secret police, not to mention all the victims of the US-backed and trained nun-raping death squads in Latin America, should all also be allowed to pursue claims in US courts too. Then we'll see where the chips land.

[Iran News] Iran rejects U.S. National Gallery of Art's request for Gauguin ...: Convinced that the Obama administration is preparing to retreat from the Middle East, Iran’s Khomeinist regime is intensifying its goal of regional domination. It has targeted six close allies of the U.S.: Egypt, Lebanon, Bahrain, Morocco, Kuwait and Jordan, all of which are experiencing economic and/or political crises.

[Theophyle's English Blog] History Before the Bible (4) Hittite Empire « Theophyle's English Blog: In 1600 BCE the Hittite Empire was very powerful, but after the successful raid on Babylon in 1590BCE, the Hittites entered a period of weakness. Consequently, their allies in the raid took  over and  created the Kassite Kingdom of Babylonia, which endured almost four hundred years in spite of comparative economic and military weakness and a lack of social or technological innovation.

[Stanford | World Association of International Studies] re: Iran: on the Persepolis Tablets Case (A. J. Cave, US; ex-Iran ...: In 2004, the Oriental Institute returned 300 clay tablets from the remaining PFA bundle, estimated at around 20,000 pieces give or take a few, to Iran and the media publicity that followed caught the eyes of the attorney of the Rubin case.  A lawsuit to collect on the judgment was quickly brought in the Federal Court in Illinois (United State Court for the Northern District of Illinois) and the court was asked to confiscate the remaining “Persepolis Fortification Tablets” still in care of the Oriental Institute, as property of the Islamic Republic to compensate the victims and their families.

[Iran News] Persepolis tablets sale sets bad example | Iran News: The Persepolis Fortification Archive, which was loaned to the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 1973, bear cuneiform inscriptions recording administrative details of the Persian Empire from about 500 BC. 

[Mirabilis.ca] Mirabilis.ca » Blog Archive » Persians found new uses for old language: "Now we can see that Persians living in Persia at the high point of the Persian Empire wrote down ordinary day-to-day matters in Persian language and Persian script," said Gil Stein, Director of the Oriental Institute. One Response to “ Persians found new uses for old language”.

[Daniel Pipes Weblog] The University of Chicago vs. Victims of Terror - Daniel Pipes Blog: Ever creative, Strachman, targeted some 20,000 antique clay tablets of Persepolis, dating from about 553 B.C.-330 B.C., the oldest Persian tablets with alphabetical inscriptions. These have been housed in Chicago since as far back as the 1930s, at the University of Chicago and the Field Museum and Strachman claimed them on the grounds that the university had acknowledged that they rightfully belonged to Iran.

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