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The University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum are crowdsourcing the transcription of documents from the 1922–1934 excavation of Ur in Iraq, otherwise known as the dig where Max Mallowan met Agathie Christie. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel sent me the link. I had a wonderful moment of timesink admiration before I realized I knew exactly which dig it was. Nineteen volumes of notes from Leonard Woolley alone, no wonder they want help from the internet. Research assistants have aged and died on lesser timelines. Yes, of course I am thinking about whether this is something I can do.
It must be something about the day. I started my afternoon with a Twitter invitation from Akhenaten.
derspatchel sent me the link. I had a wonderful moment of timesink admiration before I realized I knew exactly which dig it was. Nineteen volumes of notes from Leonard Woolley alone, no wonder they want help from the internet. Research assistants have aged and died on lesser timelines. Yes, of course I am thinking about whether this is something I can do.It must be something about the day. I started my afternoon with a Twitter invitation from Akhenaten.
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It's a very good crowd. Not to mention Puabi . . .