Egypt
Oriental Institute
February 7 - September 2, 2012, Oriental Institute, Chicago.
Download the Show Catalog in Adode Portable Document Format (pdf)
- Exhibition: Pioneers To The Past
Chicago Public Radio Radio inverview (audio) for which the introductory paragraphs are below: “Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920,” is on display at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute through...
- Online Resource: Egypt Through The Stereoscope
Oriental Institute Egypt through the Stereoscope: A Journey through the Land of the Pharaohs James Henry Breasted Terms of Use The narrative of the classic Breasted travels through Egypt, accompanied by a stereoscopic camera, is presented with all 100...
- 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....
- Exhibition: Pioneers To The Past
Chicago Tribune (William Mullen) James Henry Breasted, founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, was short, bespectacled and cerebral -- hardly fitting the picture of Indiana Jones, the fictional archaeologist many think was based...
- Resources: New Publications Online At The Oi
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago have added two more titles to their online resource. OIP 9. Medinet Habu, Volume II. The Later Historical Records of Ramses III. The Epigraphic Survey. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1932. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oip/oip9.html...
Egypt
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, and computer-aided reconstructions that show how the architecture, sites, and artifacts of the ancient Middle East have been documented. The show also examines how the publication of those images have shaped our perception of the ancient world, and how some of the more "imaginary" reconstructions have obscured our real understanding of the past. The exhibit also shows how features of the ancient Middle East have been presented in different ways for different audiences, in some cases transforming a highly academic image into a widely recognized icon of the past.
Among the topics covered are the Oriental Institute's contributions to the documentation of Egyptian monuments through the development of an epigraphic method. James Henry Breasted's notebooks of careful hand copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions and his own camera are shown alongside archival photos of the 1905 expedition to Nubia during which the epigraphic process was invented. The work of the current Epigraphic Survey is shown by a sequence of photos and collation sheets that illustrate the many steps that culminate in the final publication.
- Exhibition: Pioneers To The Past
Chicago Public Radio Radio inverview (audio) for which the introductory paragraphs are below: “Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920,” is on display at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute through...
- Online Resource: Egypt Through The Stereoscope
Oriental Institute Egypt through the Stereoscope: A Journey through the Land of the Pharaohs James Henry Breasted Terms of Use The narrative of the classic Breasted travels through Egypt, accompanied by a stereoscopic camera, is presented with all 100...
- 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....
- Exhibition: Pioneers To The Past
Chicago Tribune (William Mullen) James Henry Breasted, founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, was short, bespectacled and cerebral -- hardly fitting the picture of Indiana Jones, the fictional archaeologist many think was based...
- Resources: New Publications Online At The Oi
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago have added two more titles to their online resource. OIP 9. Medinet Habu, Volume II. The Later Historical Records of Ramses III. The Epigraphic Survey. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1932. http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oip/oip9.html...