Elderhostel
at the
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
September 13, 2005
on the
Empires in the Fertile Crescent
Ancient Assyria, Anatolia, and Israel
the host
we gathered together for coffee
welcomed by Carole Krucoff
introduced to the museum collection
by Geoff Emberling, Director of the Oriental Institute Museum
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the subject
from the citadel of Khorsabad
aerial view of a Tell in Amuq Valley
explained the Stratigraphy of excavating a Tell
lunch at the Quadrangle Club
first course
Minestrone
chicken salad
cheese cake for desert
(so tasty, I forgot to take the photo before I started eating)
Norman Golb, Professor of Jewish
History told us about
The Dead Sea Scrolls
about his theory that the scrolls
were remnants of Jerusalem writings,
not written in Khirbet Qumran, as previously thought
a portion of a Dead Sea Scroll
"Delivering Mid-Eastern Culture to
the Mid-West"
over the entrance doorway of the
Oriental Institute
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