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Under the Prairie Frontier Archaeological Museum, Athens, operated by the Sangamo Archaeological Center, closed August 1, 2008 [92] U.S. Senator Paul Simon Museum, Troy, closed in 2012 [93] Vinegar Hill Historic Lead Mine & Museum, Galena [94] Walter Payton Museum, Aurora, part of a restaurant complex that closed in 2010
The Center has been associated with years of excavation at the Koster Site in Greene County, Illinois. Researchers have uncovered evidence of more than 7,000 years of human habitation, back to the Early Archaic period (8000 BC to 1000 BC). The center is located about 90 minutes north of St. Louis and the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois.
Breasted received a reply from Rockefeller pledging $50,000 over five years for the Oriental Institute. Rockefeller also assured University of Chicago president Harry Pratt Judson that he would pledge another $50,000 to the cause. The University of Chicago contributed additional support, and in May 1919 the Oriental Institute was founded. [3]
Kazan [a] is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of 425.3 square kilometres (164.2 square miles), with a population of over 1.3 million residents, [14] and up to nearly 2 million residents in the greater metropolitan area.
The Field Museum was one of six institutions in the United States chosen to host an incredible traveling exhibition in 1977. Its 55 objects once belonged to the young King Tutankhamun whose tomb ...
Ten months later, they're exhibiting some of the artwork at Chicago's Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, bringing it to North America for the first time. Nataliia doesn't speak English, but her ...
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5] [6] and its extensive scientific specimen and artifact collections. [7]
The site covers more than 3 acres and extends 30 feet down into the alluvial deposits of the Illinois River valley. Over the course of its excavation between 1969 and 1978, Koster produced deeply buried evidence of ancient human occupation from the early Archaic period (BC 7500) to the Mississippian period (AD 1000).