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  five millennia of history

the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
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Welcome sign to the
Mesopotamian lab for the
2018 Open House

     The Mesopotamian lab at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA is the hub of the Urkesh project. The Directors of the lab and of the Urkesh project, Profs. Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, supervise the work being done here by a group of students. It is here that the archives of the project are housed, and are in the process of being digitized for inclusion on the Urkesh Global Record (the extensive digital publication of the excavations). It is here that the server for the project website and for this website is located.


Logo of the
Mesopotamian lab for the
2018 Open House
     On the occasion of the 2018 Open House at the Institute, we have illustrated detail the excavation project and given a preview of this website. Then, during the 2019 Open House, we inaugurated the exhibit "The Millennia for Today. Archaeology Against War: Yesterday's Urkesh in Today's Syria": the inauguration event was part of the Millennial Celebrations for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but the exhibit will remain permanently open in the Fowler Hall, the seat of the Cotsen Institute.