Oriental Institute Museum part of new Museum Campus South
Oriental Institute Museum part of the new Museum Campus South, a consortium of seven museums in the neighborhood.
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Achemenet Project teams up with Oriental Institute to study ancient Persia
Through a partnership with the Achemenet Project in Paris, France, the Oriental Institute will provide online access to new images and documentation of the most significant parts of its Achaemenid period (550-330 BC) object collections.
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Hisham’s Palace Museum
A new museum opened to the public at the archaeological site of Khirbet al-Mafjar (Hisham’s Palace) on May 28, 2014.
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The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago announces the in print and online publication of Barda Balka (OIC 31)
Barda Balka, by Bruce Howe, with Foreword by Yorke M. Rowan, Oriental Institute Communications 31 contains the final report of the investigations of a paleolithic site in Iraq.
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Humphrey Hill Hardy II dissertation now available online
The dissertation of Humphrey Hill Hardy II entitled Diachronic Development in Biblical Hebrew Prepositions: A Case Study in Grammaticalization is now available online through the Dissertations page of the Research Archives.
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Randy L. Shonkwiler dissertation now available online
The dissertation of Randy L. Shonkwiler entitled The Behdetite: A Study of Horus the Behdetite from the Old Kingdom to the Conquest of Alexander is now available online through the Dissertations page of the Research Archives.
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David Michael Calabro dissertation now available online
The dissertation of David Michael Calabro entitled Ritual Gestures of Lifting, Extending, and Clasping the Hand(s) in Northwest Semitic Literature and Iconography is now available online through the Dissertations page of the Research Archives.
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Aaron Michael Butts dissertation now available online
The dissertation of Aaron Michael Butts entitled Language Change in the Wake of Empire: Syriac in Its Greco-Roman Context is now available online through the Dissertations page of the Research Archives.
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A Spanish edition of the Sennacherib prism has been published
The Sennacherib prism (OIM A2793) from the Oriental Institute Museum collection has been published in a new Spanish edition.
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Oriental Institute scholars discover oldest evidence for schistosomiasis
A new article features interesting results from the Oriental Institute's archaeological project at Tell Zeidan in Syria.
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