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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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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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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Lectury by Kathryn Bandy on "Town and District: Local Administration during the Second Intermediate Period"
Kathryn Bandy, Ph.D. candidate in Egyptology at the University of Chicago, will give a lecture on "Town and District: Local Administration during the Second Intermediate Period" on Saturday, June 6, 2015, at 5:00pm in the LaSalle Banks room of the Oriental Institute.
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Lecture by Donald Whitcomb on "From Fustat to Cairo: The Many Meanings of 'Old Cairo'"
Donald Whitcomb will give a lecture on "From Fustat to Cairo: The Many Meanings of 'Old Cairo'" on Wednesday, May 27, at 5:00pm in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.
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Symposium on Ancient DNA Held at the Oriental Institute
A conference on "Ancient DNA Research" will be held on Friday, May 22, 2015 the the Oriental Institute from 1:00-5:00 pm.
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OI Director Gil Stein Addressed Cultural Heritage Concerns at Workshop in Washington, D.C.
The Univeristy of Chicago Cultural Policy Center and the Smithsonian held a joint workshop on April 17, 2015, to discuss the protection of cultural heritage throughout the world.
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Lecture by Marina Rustow on "The Material Turn in Cario Geniza Research"
Marina Rustow will give a lecture on "The Material Turn in Cairo Geniza Research" on Wednesday, May 13, at 5:00pm in the Swift Common Room of the Divinity School.
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