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- Pioneers of the Sky: Aerial Archaeology and the Black Desert
April 25–August 18, 2024
- Back to School in Babylonia
September 21, 2023–March 25, 2024
- Artifacts Also Die
April 5–August 27, 2023
- Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI
September 15, 2022–March 12, 2023
- Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis Paintings
January 27 – August 28, 2022
- Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present
April 1 – December 23, 2021
- The First 100 Years: Anatolian Studies in Chicago
September 12, 2017 – Spring 2019
- Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
October 3, 2017 – March 31, 2018
- Drones over the Desert: Archaeology and Aerial Photography
November 22, 2016 – September 10, 2017
- Persepolis: Images of an Empire
October 13, 2015 – September 3, 2017
- A Threatened Heritage
March 21, 2015 – December 18, 2016
- Don't Take My Stuff. Tell My Story.
May 1, 2016 – November 1, 2016
- Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins
August 28, 2014 – Apri 24, 2016
- A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo
February 17 – September 13, 2015
- Mini Exhibit: Cairo in Chicago
April 2 – September 13, 2015
- In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East
April 8, 2014 – January 4, 2015
- Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders: Connecting China and the Middle East
February 18 – October 19, 2014
- Catastrophe! Ten Years Later: The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past
April 10, 2013 – August 28, 2014
- Michael Rakowitz: The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
March 18 – May 25, 2014
- Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins
August 20, 2013 – February 23, 2014
- Power and Legacy: The Cyrus Cylinder and Persian Expressions of Kingship
October 5, 2013 – February 2, 2014
- Between Heaven & Earth: Birds In Ancient Egypt
October 16, 2012 – July 28, 2013
- Raiders of the Lost Journal: The Hunt for the Real Indiana Jones
December 20, 2012 – March 31, 2013
- Danh Vo's "We the People" Exhibition
September 11, 2012 – December 16, 2012
- Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East
February 7 – September 2, 2012
- Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization
March 29 – December 31, 2011
- Commerce and Coins in the Ancient Near East
August 11 – October 30, 2011
- Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East
September 28, 2010 – March 6, 2011
- Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919–20
January 12 – August 29, 2010
- The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
February 10 – December 6, 2009
- Catastrophe! The Looting of Iraq’s Past
April 10 – December 31, 2008
- European Cartographers and The Ottoman World 1500–1750: Maps from The Collection of O.J. Sopranos
November 2, 2007 – March 16, 2008
- Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy
- Through Young Eyes: Ancient Nubian Art Recreated, funded by the Joyce Foundation.
April 11 – May 6, 2007
- Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing
- Wonderful Things! The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun
- Lost Nubia: A Centennial Exhibit of Photographs from the 1905–1907 Egyptian Expedition of the University of Chicago
February 2, 2006–May 15, 2006
- Lost Egypt: Images of a Vanished Past
July 11, 2003–September 2005
- Angle of Repose: Four American Photographers in Egypt
October 23, 2001–January 27, 2002
- Treasures of the Royal Tombs of UR
October 21, 2000–January 21, 2001
- Faces of Ancient Egypt
10 September, 1996–9 March, 1997 at the Smart Museum
- Sports and Games in the Ancient Near East
May 31, 1994–September 18, 1994
- Vanished Kingdoms of the Nile
February 4–December 31, 1992
- Sifting the Sands of Time: The Oriental Institute and the Ancient Near East
October 6, 1991–December 31, 1999
- Nubia—Its Glory and its People
February 1–28, 1987; Tower of Memories, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago
