Egyptology
Source: William Harms
May 13, 2015
Oriental Institute team uses digital tools to capture nuances and share research
Produced by UChicago Creative
March 27, 2014
Last month, the Art Institute of Chicago teamed up with radiologist Michael W. Vannier of the University of Chicago Medicine and Oriental Institute research associate Emily Teeter to study two...Read more
Produced by UChicago Creative, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
December 11, 2013
Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, the annual Talat and Isabelle Othman Lecture addresses business and economic issues in the Middle East. On...Read more
Source: William Harms
January 30, 2013
Four-decade project deepens knowledge of ancient life and links to modern languages
Source: Chicago Tonight/WTTW
November 12, 2012
Curator Jack Green says Oriental Institute exhibition shows how birds embodied the life cycle of rebirth and death
Source: New York Times
September 17, 2012
Oriental Institute completes 37-year effort to create major research source on Demotic language
Source: Chicago Tribune
March 8, 2012
'Picturing the Past' exhibition debates accuracy of Middle Eastern art
Produced by Oriental Institute/University of Chicago, UChicago Creative
February 20, 2012
Emily Teeter, manager of Special Exhibits at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, discusses the role Ancient Egyptian artifacts played in creating personal identities within society at the...Read more
Produced by UChicago Creative, Oriental Institute Museum
February 7, 2012
The Oriental Institute Museum's newest exhibit, Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East, takes a look at how artists and photographers have envisioned a fragmentary past, and...Read more
Source: WFMT Radio
September 7, 2011
Profs. Robert Biggs and Martha Roth discuss the 90-year-old research project
Source: WFMT Radio
August 31, 2011
Profs. Robert Biggs and Martha Roth discuss the 90-year-old research project
Produced by UChicago Creative, The Oriental Institute of the Unviersity of Chicago
May 10, 2011
"Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization" will run from March 29 to December 31, 2011, at the museum, 1155 East 58th Street. The museum holds the Chicago area's...Read more
Produced by The Oriental Institute - Visible Languages Website
September 30, 2010
From September 28, 2010 through March 6, 2011, a new exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago will show visitors how scribes in the ancient Middle...Read more
Source: Lisa Pevtzow
June 8, 2009
Lawrence Rothfield performs inquest into the 2003 looting of museum antiquities.
Produced by University of Chicago News Office
February 12, 2009
The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient EgyptThe University of Chicago Oriental InstituteThe Oriental Institute Museum is a world-renowned showcase for the history, art, and archaeology of the...Read more
Source: Suzanne Wilder
August 4, 2008
Radiologists and Egyptologists team up to analyze Meresamun, a nearly 3,000 year-old-Egyptian mummy.
Produced by The Fathom Archive
March 1, 2006
German Jesuit archaeologist, mathematician, biologist and physicist Athanasius Kircher (1602-80) lived by Plato's maxim, 'Nothing is more beautiful than to know everything.' For Kircher, this meant studying everything from the...Read more
Produced by The Fathom Archive
March 1, 2006
What was daily life like for the ancient Egyptians? In many ways, people today share similar values and life ways--a strong emphasis on the nuclear family, the love for social...Read more
March 1, 2006
The principles behind ancient Egyptian religion, cosmologies and gods were manifested in symbols and metaphors that were drawn largely from the world around them. Inextricably linked with all aspects of...Read more
March 1, 2006
The Hittite empire left behind neither pyramids nor mummies, but it did leave a paper trail in the form of thousands of cuneiform tablets. These clay tablets, once vital to...Read more