Newly Online from the Oriental Institute

The Oriental Institute announces three older titles now available for free download at the Oriental Institute website:

• An Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. Erica Reiner. 2002.

Another full text version of this book has been online since 2006 at Google Books

• A Guide to the Oriental Institute Museum. Written by Leon Marfoe, edited by Peter T. Daniels and Valerie M. Fargo. 1982.

This guide describes the collections on display in the Oriental Institute Museum prior to its closing in 1996 in preparation for to the expansion, renovation and reinstallation.  Much of what it describes can still be seen in situ as described above, in the Oriental Institute Virtual Museum.

• The Oriental Institute. James Henry Breasted. 1933.

For an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see:

The Oriental Institute Open Access Publications