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OI marks 100 years of discovery in ancient Middle East

Michael Rakowitz exhibit

Artist reimagines ancient Middle Eastern artifact in vivid color

Christopher Woods

The Politics of Archaeology In Iraq With Christopher Woods (Ep. 31)

The director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago explains how archaeological investment becomes a form of diplomacy. 

Aeon exhibit inside Mansueto

Art installation inside Mansueto Library dome transforms OI’s ancient figures

Cleaning the Persepolis relief

Ancient Persian artifact nearly 2,500 years old returns to Oriental Institute

Unpackaging the relief

Video: 4,000-pound Ancient Persian artifact returns to the Oriental Institute

Scholars excavate Sam’al

Burned buildings reveal sacking of ancient Turkish city 3,500 years ago

electronic stylus and a digital tablet

How the OI’s work has evolved since its 1919 founding

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Miguel Civil, world’s leading scholar of ancient Sumerian, 1926-2019

University of Chicago’s Miguel Civil, top expert on ancient Sumerian, dead at 92


Miguel Civil

Miguel Civil, preeminent scholar of world’s oldest written language, dies at 92