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2026
A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia

Editor(s): Marc Maillot.

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ISAC Museum Publications 4

Published in conjunction with A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia, a special exhibition of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at the University of Chicago, this sumptuously illustrated volume… Learn More
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2026
Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum

Author(s): Abbas Alizadeh.

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ISAC Museum Publications 3

Discover the splendor of ancient Iran through a stunning selection of artifacts from the Robert and Deborah Aliber Persian Gallery at the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient… Learn More
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2023
Back to School in Babylonia

Editor(s): Susanne Paulus.

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ISAC Museum Publications 1

This volume—the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—examines education in… Learn More
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2020
Antoin Sevruguin: Past and Present

Editor(s): Tasha Vorderstrasse.

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Oriental Institute Museum Publications 40

Explore the changing world of late nineteenth-century Iran through the gaze of one of its most renowned photographers, Antoin Sevruguin. This volume, which will be accompanied by a forthcoming… Learn More
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2019
AEON

Author(s): Ann Hamilton.

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Miscellaneous Publications

Ann Hamilton, recipient of the National Medal of Arts and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, has created a new large-scale installation in the Grand Reading Room of UChicago’s Joe and Rika Mansueto… Learn More
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2019
Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100

Editor(s): Theo van den Hout.

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Miscellaneous Publications

In celebration of the OI’s centennial year, over sixty different authors and contributors have come together to provide a personalized history of the OI’s work past and present. In these pages we… Learn More
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2015
A Cosmopolitan City

Editor(s): Tasha Vorderstrasse, Tanya Treptow.

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Oriental Institute Museum Publications 38

This companion volume to the exhibit of the same name examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. It explores the interactions of Muslim,… Learn More
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2013
Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins

Editor(s): Jack Green, Emily Teeter.

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Oriental Institute Museum Publications 36

Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that reveals that many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute… Learn More
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