Lawrence Rothfield performs inquest into the 2003 looting of museum antiquities.

Radiologists and Egyptologists team up to analyze Meresamun, a nearly 3,000 year-old-Egyptian mummy.

First developed in the late 1940s at UChicago, carbon dating can determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years.

A term coined by UChicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, “The Fertile Crescent” refers to a region in Western Asia that gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations.