Egypt
- Picturing The Past - Imaging And Imagining The Ancient Middle East
Oriental Institute (Emily Teeter) Piece by exhibition curator Emily Teeter on Picturing The Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East (Feb 6 to September 2 2012) at the Oriental Institute, in the Oriental Institute News and Notes No.212 Winter...
- Exhibition: Picturing The Past At The Oi
Oriental Institute February 7 - September 2, 2012, Oriental Institute, Chicago. Download the Show Catalog in Adode Portable Document Format (pdf) Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, casts, models, photographs,...
- Online Resource: Before The Pyramids
Oriental Institute Thanks to Ancient World Online for the above link. Newly available from the Oriental Institute: Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization. Edited by Emily Teeter...
- Exhibition: More Re Pioneers To The Past
Media-Newswire A new exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum chronicles an amazing and sometimes dangerous journey 90 years ago by James Henry Breasted, a famed archaeologist who brought back Egyptian artifacts to Chicago....
- Reconstructing The Face Of Meresamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) With photographs/illustrations She was more than just a pretty face. The ancient Egyptian Meresamun, who lived around 800 B.C., was a working girl, a priestess-musician who served Amun, the preeminent deity of Thebes....
Egypt
Exhibition: At OI, questioning images we make of ancient times
Chicago Tribune (Steve Johnson)
Inevitable Indiana Jones reference included :-)
Inevitable Indiana Jones reference included :-)
A new exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum asks visitors to think twice about the images they see of ancient worlds. A painting or a model may look authoritative, but before you accept it as truth, ask yourself what assumptions the artist or archaeologist is making to complete the image, what gaps might he or she be filling in?
And then, bigger picture, consider how much of what we think we know about earlier times might be based on images that blend the factual and the fanciful.
"Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East" is up at the University of Chicago's splendid temple to Middle Eastern research and culture through Sept. 2, and it is a compact, well-edited and intellectually engaging show.
- Picturing The Past - Imaging And Imagining The Ancient Middle East
Oriental Institute (Emily Teeter) Piece by exhibition curator Emily Teeter on Picturing The Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East (Feb 6 to September 2 2012) at the Oriental Institute, in the Oriental Institute News and Notes No.212 Winter...
- Exhibition: Picturing The Past At The Oi
Oriental Institute February 7 - September 2, 2012, Oriental Institute, Chicago. Download the Show Catalog in Adode Portable Document Format (pdf) Picturing the Past presents paintings, architectural reconstructions, facsimiles, casts, models, photographs,...
- Online Resource: Before The Pyramids
Oriental Institute Thanks to Ancient World Online for the above link. Newly available from the Oriental Institute: Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization. Edited by Emily Teeter...
- Exhibition: More Re Pioneers To The Past
Media-Newswire A new exhibition at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute Museum chronicles an amazing and sometimes dangerous journey 90 years ago by James Henry Breasted, a famed archaeologist who brought back Egyptian artifacts to Chicago....
- Reconstructing The Face Of Meresamun
Archaeology Magazine (Eti Bonn-Muller) With photographs/illustrations She was more than just a pretty face. The ancient Egyptian Meresamun, who lived around 800 B.C., was a working girl, a priestess-musician who served Amun, the preeminent deity of Thebes....