Egypt
Oriental Institute archive of photographs
Oriental Institute
Thanks to the Ancient World Online for the pointer to this wonderful collection of photographs in the Oriental Institute's online resource centre.
- Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Sudan (66 Photographs)
- Persepolis and Ancient Iran (967 Photographs)
- The 1905–1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and The Sudan (1055 Photographs)
- Breasted's 1919-1920 Expedition to the Near East (1,875 Photographs)
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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Two New Exhibitions In Chicago
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060523.tut.shtml Thanks for the EEF News Digest (email version) for the above feature on the Oriental Institute website. Running from 23th May 2006 until 31st December 31 2006, are two new exhibitions at the Oriental...
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More On New Nubia Exhibit
http://tinyurl.com/rg5hv (Chicago Tribune) As reported earlier, the Oriental Institute, in Chicago, U.S., has opened a new permanent exhibit dedicated to ancient Nubia. "The Oriental Institute has long been involved with preserving Nubia's legacy....
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