AAI Reads: Murder In Mesopotamia
Channel: Open Context - The Alexandria Archive Institute
Date: 2024-03-14

This video discusses 'Murder in Mesopotamia' by Agatha Christie and is licensed CC BY-SA-NC. This book is part of the AAI Reads series and considers the question, 'Why might authors use archaeology in mystery novels?' Within this series, postdoctoral researchers Paulina F. Przystupa and L. Meghan Dennis curated a selection of archaeology and heritage-related content available outside of regular academic resources. The search terms presented in the video may be used at opencontext.org to locate more archaeology-related information, however, terms with an asterisk (*) will return no results. This video is a product of the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context’s Data Literacy Program and Digital Data Stories Project. More information can be found at https://alexandriaarchive.org/digital-data-stories. 

Music for intro and outro: 'Smile for Me' by Esther Garcia Gonzalez from Tribe of Noise Pro. Voiceover, Video Editor, and Slides: Paulina F. Przystupa. 'Cartoons of Data Literacy Program Staff' by ama from the Data Literacy Program licensed CC BY-SA-NC. 'Cartoons of Data Literacy Program Staff' was cropped, resized, reoriented, had an additional mole added, and had the mouth altered by Paulina F. Przystupa to include in this video. 'AAI Reads Logo' by Paulina F. Przystupa from the Data Literacy Program licensed CC BY-SA. The 'AAI Reads Logo' is a cropped and recolored adaptation from an original image that has an unknown provenance at this time. We will update this to include that information as soon as possible. The video also includes logos from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Mellon Foundation, and the Leon Levy Foundation representing some of our sponsors. The video in its entirety is licensed CC BY-SA-NC.

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