Article: TEACHING WEB SITE HIGHLIGHTS GIFTS OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

The Institute of Museum & Library Services issued the following press release:

Twelve-year-old students across the country are digging into the secrets of ancient Mesopotamia through a teaching Web site that lets them direct virtual archeological expeditions and curate museum exhibits with the excavated artifacts. The Web site, Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History, examines gifts left to the modern world of the region that includes Iraq. It was developed by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum in partnership with Chicago Public School teachers, the University of Chicago's Chicago Web Docent, and the eCUIP Digital Library Project and was funded by a National ...

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