Is U of Chicago involved in current archaeological projects in Iran?
Yes, Abbas Allizadeh, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, has spent much time in Iran in the last few years, working inthe museum, training students, carrying out surveys, and now, we hope, beginning an excavation of a prehistoric site. Links * Oriental Institute volumes (in-print) of the Persepolis projects: Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter. (note the links to sample images at the bottom of this page) * Persepolis Fortification Tablets * Aramaic Ritual Texts from Persepolis * Persepolis III: The Royal Tombs and Other Monuments * All in-print volumes from the OI dealing with Iran * Erich F. Schmidt, Persepolis I: Structures, Reliefs, Inscriptions, OIP LXVIII (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1953); Persepolis II: Contents of the Treasury and Other Discoveries, OIP LXIX (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957) and George G. Cameron Persepolis Treasury Tablets, OIP LXV (Chicago: University o
