The story of ancient Persia gets digitized

Tablets on loan from Iran are being photographed and recorded

		IMAGE: Professor Matthew Stolper of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago looks at a Persian tablet that has been digitized so that scholars can read its contents as if... Click here for more information.

The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago is using modern technology to digitally record thousands of tablets that, as they are being pieced together, tell an unusually detailed story of the Persian Empire.