[First posted in AWOL 27 April 2015, updated (new URLs) 27 October 2025]
Institute for the Study of the Ancient Cultures Miscellaneous Publications
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This children’s activity book was created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia (April 16, 2026–August 16, 2026). Let Zaraafa the giraffe accompany you in Nubia, a region… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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This children's activity book tells the story of a nineteenth-century photographer assigned to archaeological missions. Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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Uncover the art of the ancient world through 25 hand-drawn illustrations based on carved ivories from Megiddo, a powerful city in the Late Bronze Age. These ivories—once part of furniture, boxes, and… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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Most archaeological work is done on the ground, but we can also study the past from the sky. This is called aerial archaeology, and it began over a hundred years ago! Follow Dana, a young fox and… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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Ancient inscriptions are incredibly valuable for understanding ancient cultures, but these texts are at risk of disappearing and need to be recorded and protected. Follow a group of young epigraphers… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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Journey back in time 3,800 years to Nippur, a city in ancient Babylonia, as a girl sets out on a quest to become a scribe. Follow along as Inanaka learns how to make a tablet and write her name,… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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The study of ancient curse tablets (defixiones or defixionum tabellae) throughout the twentieth century was based almost exclusively on the texts they contained, leaving aside, as less interesting,… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest Egyptologists and archaeologists America has yet… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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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,… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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Ann Hamilton, recipient of the National Medal of Arts and a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, has created a new large-scale installation in the Grand Reading Room of UChicago’s Joe and Rika Mansueto… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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In celebration of the OI’s centennial year, over sixty different authors and contributors have come together to provide a personalized history of the OI’s work past and present. In these pages we… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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This guide to over 100 highlights of the collections of the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago presents objects from ancient Mesopotamia, Syria-Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Persia… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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The University of Chicago, the US Embassy Kabul, the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University, and the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture organized an international conference focused on … Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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Muzahim Hussein’s 1989 discovery of tombs of Neo-Assyrian queens in the palace of Ashurnasirpal in Nimrud (Kalhu/Calah) was electrifying news for archaeology. Although much is known of the Assyrian… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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This is a presentation of beautiful colored mosaics. They originate from buildings in the oasis of Jericho and all date from the first half of the eighth century, during the time of Umayyad caliphate… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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This long-awaited manual represents an extraordinary new chapter in the history of the Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. In the manual, a century of tradition joins… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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As a result of the long-term cooperation between archaeologists from the University of Ghent and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and with the collaboration of other excavators in… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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The narrative of the classic Breasted travels through Egypt, accompanied by a stereoscopic camera, is presented with all 100 view cards and the twenty maps and plans of the original publication. This… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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This volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. Written by his students and disciples,… Learn MoreSeries / Volume
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This bulletin advertises the opening of the Robert F. Picken Family Nubia Gallery at the Oriental Institute Museum on February 25, 2006. The gallery presents more than 600 artifacts from Nubia from… Learn MoreAnd see AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies
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