AI and Human-Environment History seeks to productively synergize, cross-pollinate, coalesce, and engage in transformative interdisciplinary research, global socio-climatic modeling, and…
Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) investigates the people, communities, and systems behind the construction of the Giza pyramids and Sphinx.
An ambitious early information system conceived by James Henry Breasted, the Archaeological Corpus organized evidence from across the ancient world on some 400,000 cards—now being digitized for…
CAMEL is the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. We engage in research and mapping of landscapes in West Asia, Central Asia, and North…
Launched in 1921, the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is a landmark ISAC research project documenting Akkadian, the earliest known Semitic language. Built by generations of scholars, the CAD records the…
Cultural heritage is the glue that binds communities and nations together through a shared history and identity. The Chicago Center for Cultural Heritage Preservation (C3HP) at the University of…
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary opens a vital archive of ancient Egyptian life by making the language of everyday documents, literature, science, and religion accessible to the world.
The Chicago Hittite Dictionary opens access to the earliest preserved Indo-European language. Written in cuneiform on clay tablets from ancient Anatolia, Hittite preserves a remarkable record of…
The Data Research Center turns ISAC’s archives, collections, and research data into powerful digital resources for discovering the ancient world anew.
Demon Things is an ancient Egyptian demonology project about the imaginal realm of ancient Egyptian supernatural beings. This project serves as a portal for the subject of liminal entities in ancient…
The Diyala Project makes excavation records, photographs, and object data from ISAC’s 1930s excavations in Iraq available through a searchable digital archive for the study of ancient Mesopotamia.
The Eastern Badia Archaeological Project (EBAP) investigates the later prehistory of eastern Jordan, with particular focus on Late Neolithic communities in the Black Desert. Since 2008, survey and…
One of the earliest projects associated with ISAC is the Egyptian Expedition that was led by James Henry Breasted for two seasons: the winters of 1905–1906 and 1906–1907. The purpose of the project…
The Epigraphic Survey documents, conserves, and publishes the inscriptions and reliefs of ancient Egyptian monuments, preserving the temples and tombs of Luxor for scholars and the public.
