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Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History is made possible from funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This online resource will feature significant artifacts from the Mesopotamian collection of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute is partnering with Chicago Web Docent and eCUIP, The Digital Library to develop curriculum based interactives, a learning collection of digitized artifacts, and an online professional development course for K—12 educators nationwide. Educators from diverse neighborhoods of the city of Chicago will assist us with varied aspects of the development, evaluation and testing of the project. We anticipate that This History, Our History will become a model teaching and learning tool for use in classrooms across the nation.

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