Lecture by Hanan Charaf on Lebanon in the Days of the Canaanites

Hanan Charaf will give a lecture about "Lebanon in the Day sof the Canaanites: Recent Discoveries from the Middle Bronze Age" on Thursday, January 31, 2019, at 12:00 PM in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.

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Lecture by Brian Rose on Troy and Gordion

Brian Rose will give a lecture about "Troy and Gordion: The Historiography of Excavation at Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia" on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 7:00 PM in Social Sciences Room 122.

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Oriental Institute Annual Report 2017–19 Now Available

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago announces the online publciation of Oriental Institute 2017–18 Annual Report.

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Oriental Institute News & Notes, Issue 240, Winter 2019, Now Available

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago announces the online publciation of Oriental Institute News & Notes Issue 240 (Winter 2019).

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Lecture by Stephen Chrisomalis on "Ancient Written Numerals"

Stephen Chrisomalis will give a lecture about "How to Choose a Number: Multimodal Variations in Ancient Written Numerals" on Wednesday, December 5, at 7:00 PM in Social Sciences Room 122.

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Interview with Gil Stein Now Available on the OI Podcast in iTunes

Lectures, interviews, and more are now available for listening and download on the Oriental Institute Podcast through iTunes and SoundCloud. As part of the launch, former OI director Gil Stein's oral history is now available as a podcast on iTunes for the first time.

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Own an iconic artifact from the Oriental Institute!

The first 50 people who start a new membership or make an additional gift of $250 or more will receive an original chair from Breasted Hall!

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Job Posting: Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Rank of Instructor

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago invites applications for the Oriental Institute’s Annual Post-Doctoral Fellow Conference program for the 2019—2021 academic years. This is a twenty-four-month, non-renewable appointment.

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Lecture by Stuart Tyson Smith on the "Nubian Borderlands"

Stuart Tyson Smith will give a lecture about "'Entangled Lives: Intercultural Interactions in the Nubian Borderlands" on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, at 7:00 PM in Room 122 of Social Sciences (1126 E. 59th Street).

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The Epigraphic Survey/Chicago House launches digitalEPIGRAPHY

The digital drawing manual of Krisztián Vértes and the Epigraphic Survey, Digital Epigraphy, has outgrown the electronic book format and has evolved into its own website, digitalEPIGRAPHY, which can be accessed as of November 1st. 

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