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Between 2004 and 2009, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago ran a major project to create a bilingual, English-Arabic database of all the archaeological finds from the Oxford-Field Museum Expedition to Kish, which ran from 1923 to 1933. It also produced a very useful accompanying website. Under a new agreement with the Field Museum, signed in 2025, we are delighted to host that database and website here. While the content is unchanged from the original database and website, the coding has been updated to comply with current internet standards and Oracc's visual style.

The Field Museum is providing this data under a Creative Commons Public Domain Waiver (CC 0) for its collections metadata and a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 License (CC BY NC) for its collections multimedia. Users may make any use of this data that is consistent with the Museum's Data Norms [https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/research/use-collections-data-and-images] without further permission from the Field Museum.

We express our warmest thanks to all at the Field Museum who facilitated the resurrection of this data, including President and CEO Dr Julian Siggers [https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/julian-siggers]; Dr Deborah Bekken, former Director of the Gantz Family Collections Center; Jamie Kelly [https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/jamie-kelly], Head of Anthropology Collections; Dr William Parkinson [https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/staff/profile/william-parkinson], Curator and Associate Director of Anthropology; and Dr Karen Wilson, Associate. We are also very grateful to Professor Paul Collins [https://www.ashmolean.org/people/paul-collins] and Dr Nancy Highcock [https://www.ashmolean.org/people/nancy-highcock], former and current Jalah Hearn Curators for the Ancient Middle East at the Ashmolean Museum, for their keen support, as well as Professor Steve Tinney, Deputy Director of Penn Museum and founder of Oracc, for his practical involvement.

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