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University of Chicago Returns Ancient Persian Tablets Loaned by Iran

From University of Chicago News Office, Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian Empire, to the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, the national antiquities department, in the first return of loaned archaeological items there since the 1979 revolution.

Submitted in section: Archaeology: Regional: Middle East: Iran: University of Chicago Returns Ancient Persian Tablets Loaned by Iran