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Preserving Afghanistan’s cultural heritage

Oriental Institute works with National Museum of Afghanistan to catalog priceless artifacts.


Susie Allen

William Harms

Preserving Afghanistan’s cultural heritage

Oriental Institute works with National Museum of Afghanistan to catalog priceless artifacts

Saving relics, Afghans defy the Taliban

Oriental Institute scholars create digital record to archive and protect National Museum of Afghanistan's damaged art collection


Emily Teeter: The Egyptologist

Research Associate Emily Teeter discusses her career as an Egyptologist at the Oriental Institute


The Nile’s new location marks 20-year connection to UChicago

New location at 1162 E. 55th Street displays reproductions of Oriental Institute photographs.


Calmetta Coleman

The workplace has changed, the baking of bread hasn't

Oriental Institute's new 'Our Work' exhibition juxtaposes ancient artifacts with contemporary Chicagoans


Craft brewer uses archaeology to recreate ancient recipe

Professors from Oriental Institute are working with Great Lakes Brewing Company to replicate 5,000-year-old Sumerian beer