Job Opportunity: 2020-2022 Post-Doctoral Fellow

The Oriental Institute is now accepting applications for is 2020–2022 Post-Doctoral Fellow.

Chicago Hittite Dictionary S, Fascicle 4 Has Now Appeared

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago announces the publication in print and online of The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CHD), S, fascicle 4 (-šma/i- A. to šūu).

Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100 Now Available

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago proudly announces the Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100, a volume honoring the centennial celebration of the Institute's founding in 1919.

Persepolis Relief Returns to OI after 80 Years on Loan

A stone relief has returned to the OI from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts after eighty years on loan.

Public Celebration of the OI Centennial on September 28

On September 28, the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago will commemorate its 100th anniversary with a public celebration—the first in a yearlong series of centennial events open to the University community and the general public.

Centennial Gala

UChicago Magazine Celebrates OI Centennial

UChicago Magazine Celebrates OI Centennial

To mark the celebration of the OI's centennial, UChicago Magazine has devoted the cover story of its summer issue to our monumental first century, covering both the history of the OI and our future direction. Explore "The OI at 100."

Special Collections Exhibit about OI Opens September 16

"Discovery, Collection, Memory: The Oriental Institute at 100" will open on September 16, 2019, and run through December 13, 2019, at the Special Collections Research Center Gallery.

Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements 3 Now Available

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago announces a new publication in print and online: Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II (Bo 6151–Bo 9535) by Oğuz Soysal and Başak Yıldız Gülşen, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements 3. The volume is available for download and purchase. The monograph offers a large number of unpublished text fragments in photo and transliteration and gives succinct philological notes to these fragments. The fragments are part of a large collection that had been found during the early Turkish-German campaigns at the Hittite capital Hattusa before the Second World War.