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Archaeology Project Will Re-Create an Ancient Assyrian Palace Electronically
By BROCK READ

The Northwest Palace of King Ashur-nasir-pal II served as a model for centuries of Assyrian architecture that followed it. Samuel Paley, a professor of classics at the State University of New York at Buffalo, hopes to create an archetype of similar importance with a project that aims to digitally recreate the palace. Mr. Paley is co-director the re-creation project, which will take the form of a virtual tour of Ashur-nasir-pal's palace, built in the ninth century B.C. in the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq....

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