Join Jesse Ballenger, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, for the lecture Archaeological Preservation Efforts and Agonies in Northern Iraq, 2006. The lecture is part of a series, "The Roots of Literacy in the Ancient Near East," being held in conjunction with the exhibit Writings Out of Time: The University of Arizona's Cuneiform Collection on display in the University Libraries Special Collections gallery from Sept. 14 through Dec. 8.