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Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins [Paperback]
Jack Green (Editor); Emily Teeter (Editor)
£19.00ISBN: 9781885923998
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 36
Our Work: Modern Jobs – Ancient Origins is the catalog for a photo-based exhibit that reveals that many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with ... .... Learn More -
Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle East [Paperback]
Jack Green (Editor); Emily Teeter (Editor); John A. Larson (Editor)
£19.95ISBN: 9781885923899
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
This fully illustrated catalogue of essays, descriptions, and commentary accompanies the Oriental Institute special exhibit Picturing the Past: Imaging and Imagining the Ancient Middle Eas... .... Learn More -
Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt [Paperback]
Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer (Editor)
£19.99ISBN: 9781885923929
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 35
Issued in conjunction with an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, this is the first comprehensive study of birds in ancient Egyptian society, economy, art, and religion. Essays address the role o... .... Learn More -
Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization [Paperback]
Emily Teeter (Editor)
£27.95ISBN: 9781885923820
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 33
This catalogue for an exhibit at Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum presents the newest research on the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods in a lavishly illustrated format. Essays on the rise of the state, contact with the Levant and Nubi... .... Learn More -
Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond [Paperback]
Christopher Woods (Editor)
£20.00ISBN: 9781885923769
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 32
Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is one of humanity's greatest inventions. This book presents current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each wri... .... Learn More -
Ancient Israel: Highlights from the Collections of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago [Paperback]
Gabrielle V. Novacek (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781885923653
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 31
On January 29, 2005, the Oriental Institute celebrated the official public opening of the Haas and Schwartz Megiddo Gallery. This occasion marked the return of some of the most extraordinary artifacts ever excavated in the southern Levant to pe... .... Learn More -
Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920 [Paperback]
Geoff Emberling (Editor)
£24.95ISBN: 9781885923707
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 30
Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920, the catalogue of the Oriental Institute special exhibit of the same name, highlights the interconnected stories of an important figure in intellectual history - James ... .... Learn More -
Life of Meresamun: A Temple Singer in Ancient Egypt [Paperback]
Emily Teeter (Editor);Janet H Johnson (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781885923608
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 29
This companion volume and catalog to the exhibit that opens on February 9, 2009, traces the life of Meresamun, whose mummy,
dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of The
Oriental Institute museum in Chicago, IL.... .... Learn More -
Baked Clay Figurines and Votive Beds from Medinet Habu [Hardback]
Emily Teeter (Author)
£56.00ISBN: 9781885923585
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 133
This catalog presents the entire corpus of 272 baked clay figurines and votive beds excavated at Medinet Habu by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago during their 1926-1933 campaign. The figurines represent women, women with chi... .... Learn More -
European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O J Sopranos [Hardback]
Ian Manners (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781885923752
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 27
This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750 , explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the informa... .... Learn More