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The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago announces a new publication in print and online: Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration II (Bo 6151–Bo 9535) by Oğuz Soysal and Başak Yıldız Gülşen, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements 3.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 The monograph offers a large number of unpublished text fragments in photo and transliteration and gives succinct philological notes to these fragments.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.

Kipper Lecture by David Ilan on "How Ancient Israel Began"

David Ilan will give the David A. Kipper Ancient Israel Lecture about "How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective" on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, at 700–9:00 PM in Breasted Hall of the Oriental Institute.

New OI Publication Excavations in the Plain of Antioch III Now Available

The Oriental Institute Publications office announces the in print and online publication of Excavations in the Plain of Antioch III: Stratigraphy, Pottery, and Small Finds from Chatal Höyük in the Amuq Plain by Marina Pucci in the series Oriental Institute Publications 143.

Workshop on the Reception and Display of Ancient Near Eastern Art

The Art History Department of Northwestern University and the Oriental Institute have organized a workshop on "The Reception and Display of Ancient Near Eastern Art" to be held on Friday, May 17, 2019, at 9:00 AM–4:00 PM in Trienens Forum, Kresge Centennial Hall, on the campus of Northwestern University.