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.
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 records, publishes, and conserves the hieroglyphic reliefs and inscriptions of ancient Egyptian monuments, thereby preserving their textual, iconographic, and architectural…
Excavations at Thebes is a digital excavation report documenting work undertaken by the Earl of Carnarvon and the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Thebes between 1911 and 1916.
The Galilee Prehistory Project investigated the prehistoric period known as the Chalcolithic Period (c. 4500-3600 BCE) in the Galilee of northern Israel.
