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IIMAS — The International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies

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🌍 Learn how heritage connects communities beyond excavation seasons.
📚 Explore the Urkesh platform: https://t.co/x9weZ1DXPQ
#TellMozan #Urkesh #ArchaeologyInSyria #SyrianHeritage #CulturalMemo

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⭕️ Today, educational materials, multilingual site interpretation, and local engagement remain central to the mission of the Tell Mozan Project.
📚 Explore the Urkesh platform: https://t.co/x9weZ1DXPQ
#TellMozan #Urkesh #ArchaeologyInSyria #SyrianHeritage #CulturalMemo

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⭕️ For decades, archaeological work at Urkesh has shown that preservation is not limited to protecting walls and objects: it also means sustaining the link between heritage and people, especially in times of conflict
📚 Explore the Urkesh platform: https://t.co/x9weZ1DXPQ
#Urkesh

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⭕️ Urkesh is not only an archaeological site — it is a living archive of memory.
At Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh continues to speak through architecture, stratigraphy, and the enduring relationship between place and community.
📚 Explore the Urkesh platform: https://t.co/x9weZ1DXPQ

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⭕️ Protecting Cultural Heritage in Turbulent Times. A Free Webinar
9 April 2025
6:00 pm (CEST - Rome Time)
ℹ️ Register below to attend at https://t.co/CVgzUdGJqB

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⭕️ The research group of the Cybernetica Mesopotamica project meets for the Seminar "Beola 6"
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⭕️ Our collaborator Arwa Kharobi participates in the "30th Congress of the European Association of Archaeologists" in Rome
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⭕️ Professor Giorgio Buccellati receives the "Beato Contardo Ferrini Prize" in Pavia. On October 16, 2024, in Pavia, hosted by the Franciscan friars at Santuario di S. Maria Incoronata di Canepanova, Professor Giorgio Buccellati received the ...
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⭕️ 🌍✨ The leap from pre-writing symbols to actual writing marks a pivotal moment in human history! Research by the INSCRIBE team at the University of Bologna reveals how late prehistoric imagery evolved into early proto-cuneiform📝🔍 #History #Writing
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⭕️ This is an image of a woman – peering at us, as if to establish eye contact, four thousand years hence. And we look back, in turn, peering at her world. Through our project, in Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh, we aim to bring her back more fully.
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⭕️ Music in the Urkesh palace
A seal of queen Uqnitum gives us a glimpse of a musical performance such as would have taken place in the royal palace of Urkesh.
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⭕️ Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh - at a glance
Tell Mozan is the site of the ancient city of Urkesh - which was known from myth and history, and which our excavations have firmly placed at this location in northeastern Syria. Its beginnings are as yet ...
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⭕️ "The Urkesh Extended Project: Community archaeology and digital discourse" conference by Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
Alcalà de Henares (Madrid) May 8, 2024
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
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⭕️ Workshop "Et incarnatus est. El novum bíblico en el continuum de su matriz cultural mesopotámica", by Giorgio Buccellati. May 7, 2024
Madrid, Univerdidad San Dámaso,
and on YouTube (check the link below to watch online).
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⭕️ Lecture: "The Pride of Lost Heritage: An Integrated Preservation Approach at Ancient Urkesh, Syria" by G. Buccellati. March 13, 2024
The Getty Conservation Institute and via Zoom
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⭕️ Dyala Jamal Omar visiting the Urkesh lab at UCLA.
Jamal Omar was one of the key participants in the Urkesh project, and his daughter, Dyala, is now a student at UCLA.
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⭕️ Fanxi Xu, a veteran of many seasons at Urkesh and Ziyada, has remained very close to all our projects, and is now planning to develop a support basis in Shanghai.
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⭕️ "Under the Dust of Tell Mozan: Bioanthropological analysis" Arwa Kharobi.
March 1, 2024, 12:00-12:45 PM (CET)
"Bioarchaeology in Mesopotamia" workshop. Kiel University
More information and registration to receive the ZOOM link.
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