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Fully illustrated catalogue of essays, descriptions, and commentary accompanies the 2012 Oriental Institute special exhibit Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East . Presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, models, photographs, and reconstructions showing how the ancient Middle East has been documented.

On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institute celebrated the official public opening of the Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery. This occasion marked the return of some of the most extraordinary artifacts ever excavated in the southern Levant to permanent public display.

Fully-illustrated catalogue offers highlights of the Egyptian collection at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A brief history of the collection is followed by a catalogue of seventy-seven objects, which date from the early third millennium BC to the eighth century AD. Many of these objects have not been previously published.

This catalog presents the entire corpus of 272 baked clay figurines and votive beds excavated at Medinet Habu by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago during their 1926-1933 campaign. Each object is fully described and illustrated and is accompanied by commentary on construction, symbolism, and function.

This volume publishes for the first time the Oriental Institute Museum's complete collection of nineteenth-century Iranian photographs, most of which were created by Antoin Sevruguin.

This special edition of Highlights of the Collections of the Oriental Institute Museum commemorates the 2019 centennial of the Oriental Institute and presents 100 highlights from ancient Mesopotamia, Syro-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Nubia, and Persia in the collections.

Companion to the 2009 exhibit, traces the life of Meresamun, whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute Museum. The study of the life of this individual is augmented by forensic evidence obtained with the newest generation of CT scanners that sheds life on Meresamun's life and death.

Catalogue for an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum presenting research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods: the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubia, crafts, writing, iconography and evidence from Abydos, Tell el-Farkha, Hierakonpolis and the Delta. Will be a standard reference and a staple for classroom use.