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PROJECT PUBLICATIONS

Multimedia

Giorgio Buccellati – 2002-2010
Laerke Recht – 2013-2017
Marco De Pietri – 2018-present

     Published multimedia material on Urkesh by staff members are listed below.


2011 Rick Hauser: Unwrapping Urkesh


The whole film is also available on Urkesh's YouTube official channel.

Singular "episodes" of the film (with the starting point indicated in the format "mm:ss" [= "minutes:seconds"]) are here linked, redirecting to new tabs:

  1. Introduction (01:05)
  2. The quest for and the (re-)discovery of Urkesh (01:22)
  3. "Unwrapping" Urkesh (04:12)
  4. 1990 onwards (05:24)
  5. Tell Mozan = Urkesh? The quest for a name (07:14)
  6. Kumarbi and the lion-pegs of Tish-atal (08:01)
  7. Tupkish, his seal(ing)s, and lions (09:27)
  8. 1993 onwards: many sealings! (10:34)
  9. 1997 onwards: handling seal(ing)s (11:29)
  10. Inscribed and blank tablets: ancient "students" at Urkesh (14:05)
  11. Identification of Urkesh (16:22)
  12. Dealing with pottery (16:50)
  13. Walk-through the Royal Palace (18:10)
  14. Kite/aerial photography (19:33)
  15. Interpreting stratigraphy (22:44)
  16. Gilgamesh at Urkesh (24:16)
  17. Goods' tablets and archaeological artefacts (25:08)
  18. Stratigraphy, "looking for" it (26:31)
  19. Understanding buildings (27:47)
  20. Stratigraphic method (28:44)
  21. Interpreting buildings/architecture (37:43)
  22. Fieldwork and documentation (39:00)
  23. Photography in the field (40:15)
  24. High-tech and low-tech (41:14)
  25. Responsibility for conservation (41:20)
  26. Ethnoarchaeology (43:19)
  27. Tombs and graves (44:25)
  28. Ceramics (44:49)
  29. Tombs' typologies and grave goods (46:22)
  30. Goddess (Ishtar's) descent into the Netherworld (46:41)
  31. Figurines (47:53)
  32. Computers and technology (52:09)
  33. Database for seal(ing)s (52:33)
  34. "Now, the city has a name" [gB]: Kumarbi and Urkesh (55:04)
  35. Credits (57:29)

Some further extracts from this film can be found, listed according to topics, at the following link.