Joseph Lindon Smith, Guards

Past Exhibitions

Bestiary, web graphic

April 16–August 16, 2026

Bestiary of Ancient Nubia

Special Exhibit Gallery

Megiddo Exhibit, web graphic

September 18, 2025–March 15, 2026

Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined

Special Exhibit Gallery

Staging the East, web graphic

April 17–August 17, 2025

Staging the East: Orientalist Photography in Chicago Collections

Special Exhibit Gallery

Chicago on the Nile, web graphic

September 17, 2024–March 23, 2025

Chicago on the Nile: 100 Years of the Epigraphic Survey in Egypt

Special Exhibit Gallery

Pioneers of the Sky, web graphic

September 18, 2025–March 15, 2026

Pioneers of the Sky: Aerial Archaeology and the Black Desert

Special Exhibit Gallery

Back to School, web graphic

September 21, 2023–March 25, 2024

Back to School in Babylonia

Special Exhibit Gallery

Artifacts Also Die, web graphic

April 5–August 27, 2023

Artifacts Also Die

Special Exhibit Gallery

Making Sense of Marbles, web graphic

September 15, 2022–March 12, 2023

Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI

Special Exhibit Gallery

Joseph Lindon Smith, web graphic

January 27 – August 28, 2022

Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis Paintings

Special Exhibit Gallery

Antoin Sevruguin, web graphic

April 1–December 23, 2021

Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present

Special Exhibit Gallery

The First 100 Years, web graphic

September 15, 2022–March 12, 2023

The First 100 Years: Anatolian Studies in Chicago

Special Exhibit Gallery

Book of the Dead text and vignettes

October 3, 2017–March 31, 2018

Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt

Special Exhibit Gallery

Drones Over the Desert, web graphic

November 22, 2016–September 10, 2017

Drones over the Desert: Archaeology and Aerial Photography

Lower Level

Persepolis: Images of an Empire, web graphic

October 13, 2015–September 3, 2017

Persepolis: Images of an Empire

Special Exhibit Gallery

A Threatened Heritage, web graphic

March 21, 2015–December 18, 2016

A Threatened Heritage

Special Exhibit Gallery

Don't Take My Stuff, web graphic

May 1, 2016–November 1, 2016

Don't Take My Stuff. Tell My Story.

Lower Level

Our Work, web graphic

August 28, 2014–Apri 24, 2016

Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins

Lower Level

Cosmopolitan City, web graphic

February 17–September 13, 2015

A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo

Special Exhibit Gallery

Street in Cairo brochure

April 2–September 13, 2015

Cairo in Chicago

Museum Lobby

Katamuwa Stele

April 8, 2014–January 4, 2015

In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East

Special Exhibit Gallery

Silk Road map

February 18–October 19, 2014

Silk Road and Indian Ocean Traders: Connecting China and the Middle East

Persian Gallery