Gallery Talk by Sam Harris on "The Uruk World"
Sam Harris will give a gallery talk on "The Uruk World'" on Thursday, September 3, at 12:15-1:00pm in the Oriental Institute galleries.
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Lecture by Josef Wegner on "The Pharaohs of Anubis-Mountain"
Josef Wegner will give a lecture on "The Pharaohs of Anubis-Mountain: Archaeological Investigations of a Royal Necropolis at Abydos" on Wednesday, September 2, at 7:00pm in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.
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Oriental Institute Statement on the Murder of Khaled al-As'ad
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago mourns the brutal murder by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIL, ISIS, or Da’ish) of Khaled al-As'ad, the retired Antiquities Director for the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria.
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Museum Archives Records Added to Online Collections Search
In summer 2015 the archival collections of the Oriental Institute went online through the Search Our Collections page. Over 7,000 records are currently available and more are being added daily.
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Employment: Managing Director For the Afghan Heritage Mapping Project (AHMP)
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago invites applications for the position of Managing Director for the Afghan Heritage Mapping Project. This is a three-year position with the possibility of extension.
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Exhibit "Doing Business in the Ancient World" at Chicago Booth School of Business
A new mini-exhibit "Doing Business in the Ancient World" is currenlty on display at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Objects from the Oriental Institute Museum collections were chosen by exhibit co-curators Jack Green and Brittany Hayden to highlight monetary transactions in the ancient world.
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Egyptian Coffin Conservation Project (Continued)
As part of a grant from the Antiquities Endowment Fund of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), a project to conserve an Egyptian coffin in the Oriental Institute Museum collection (OIM E12072) has continued to make important progress. This unusual coffin contains a selection of spells from the Pyramid Texts and the OI conservation team is treating the coffin so that it can be exhibited in the Joseph and Mary Grimshaw Egyptian Gallery later this summer.
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Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Grants to the Persepolis Fortification Archive Projecct
The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute has awarded two timely grants to the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project at the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by Bob Andresen on "Old Kingdom Tomb Chambers at Chicago's Field Museum"
Bob Andresen will give a lecture on "Old Kingdom Tomb Chambers at Chicago's Field Museum" on Saturday, July 11, 2015, at 5:00pm in the LaSalle Banks Room of the Oriental Institute.
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Symposium on Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade to be Held at the Neubauer Collegium
Join us for the inaugural workshop of an interdisciplinary three-year project sponsored by the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago. Specialists in ancient texts and archaeology from the Oriental Institute and the Department of Classics will work with economists from the Department of Economics and the Booth School of Business, and with several external collaborators, to investigate the applicability to ancient trade of the mathematical and computational methods employed by economists to study modern trade. This project will build on the strengths of the University of Chicago in both economics and ancient studies. We will have biannual workshops and an international conference in the final year of the project to foster interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical discussions about the relationship between social institutions and economic behavior, past and present.
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