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Special Exhibits
Current Show
- Between Heaven & Earth: Birds In Ancient Egypt
October 16, 2012 - July 28, 2013
Members' Preview, Monday, October 15, 2012 - Catastrophe! Ten Years Later: The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past
April 10, 2013 - Ongoing
Upcoming Shows
- Our Work: Modern Jobs - Ancient Origins
August 20, 2013 through February 23, 2014
Members’ Preview Monday, August 19, 2013
Past Shows
- Raiders of the Lost Journal: The Hunt for the Real Indiana Jones
December 20, 2012 – March 31, 2013 - Danh Vo's "We the People" Exhibition
September 11, 2012 – December 16, 2012 - Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East
February 7 – September 2, 2012 - Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization
March 29–December 31, 2011 - Commerce and Coins in the Ancient Near East
August 11 – October 30, 2011 - Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East
September 28, 2010–March 6, 2011 - Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919–20
January 12–August 29, 2010 - The Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer In Ancient Egypt
February 10–December 6, 2009 - Catastrophe! The Looting of Iraq’s Past
April 10–December 31, 2008 - European Cartographers and The Ottoman World 1500–1750: Maps from The Collection of O.J. Sopranos
November 2, 2007–March 16, 2008 - Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy
- Through Young Eyes: Ancient Nubian Art Recreated, funded by the Joyce Foundation.
April 11–May 6, 2007 - Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing
- Wonderful Things! The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun
- Lost Nubia: A Centennial Exhibit of Photographs from the 1905–1907 Egyptian Expedition of the University of Chicago
February 2, 2006–May 15, 2006 - Lost Egypt: Images of a Vanished Past
July 11, 2003–September 2005 - Angle of Repose: Four American Photographers in Egypt
October 23, 2001–January 27, 2002 - Treasures of the Royal Tombs of UR
October 21, 2000–January 21, 2001 - Faces of Ancient Egypt
10 September, 1996–9 March, 1997 at the Smart Museum - Sports and Games in the Ancient Near East
May 31, 1994–September 18, 1994 - Vanished Kingdoms of the Nile
February 4–December 31, 1992 - Sifting the Sands of Time: The Oriental Institute and the Ancient Near East
October 6, 1991–December 31, 1999 - Nubia—Its Glory and its People
February 1–28, 1987; Tower of Memories, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago
Revised: April 24, 2013
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