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The Orphaned Archaeological Collections and its Place in the Modern Museum: A Case Study from Tell Hadidi, Syria (2016)
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Destruction of ancient sites along the Euphrates River in Northern Syria due to the construction of the Tabqa Dam and the formation of Lake Assad led to salvage excavations conducted between 1974 and 1978 by the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) at the site of Tell Hadidi, Syria, under the direction of Dr. Rudolph Dornemann. The 300,000 artifacts collected by the project are now housed at the MPM but this material has never been completely published. In 1991, with the retirement of Dr. Dornemann,...