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The University of Chicago contributed additional support, and in May 1919 the Oriental Institute was founded. [3] The institute is housed in an unusual Art-Deco/Gothic building at the corner of 58th Street and University Avenue, which was designed by the architectural firm Mayers Murray & Phillip.
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) or The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a nine-decade project at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute (now known as the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) to compile a dictionary of the Akkadian language and its dialects.
Gil Stein (born January 9, 1956) is an American archaeologist.He was director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (then Oriental Institute) at the University of Chicago from 2003 to 2017.
OCHRE – The Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment – at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is the main online database for the Persepolis Fortification Archive (PFA) Project, where all the components of the Persepolis Administrative Archives – Elamite, Aramaic, glyptic, and miscellany – can be seen, linked ...
The Chicago Hittite Dictionary (CHD) (The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago) is a project at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute to create a comprehensive dictionary of the Hittite language.
The rise of the north Arabic script and its Ḳur'ānic development, with a full description of the Ḳur'ān manuscripts in the Oriental institute (PDF). The University of Chicago Oriental Institute Publications. Vol. L. University of Chicago. Abbott, Nabia (1938). The Kurrah Papyri from Aphrodito in the Oriental Institute (PDF) (PhD thesis ...
The marquee outside a downtown Chicago theater reads "Nederlander," but it wasn't always that way. "Most people are familiar with the term oriental but don't really know where it comes from or why ...
The University of Chicago contributed additional support and, in May 1919, the Oriental Institute was founded. Breasted had two key objectives for the field trip: to purchase antiquities for the Oriental Institute and to select sites for future excavation.