institute for the study of ancient cultures

Seen Not Heard

Traditionally, writing--a graphic, multidimensional form of communication--has been approached as...

Where Kingship Descended from Heaven

From 1923 to 1933, the Chicago Field Museum and the University of Oxford conducted archaeological...

Second Cataract Fortress of Dorginarti

The best-known sites along the length of the Nile River's Second Cataract are the ruins of Egypti...

Mural Decoration in the Theban Necropolis

The tombs and mortuary temples of Thebes have proved an enduring topic of interest thanks to a qu...

Excavations at the Palatial Complex

The city on the Kerkenes Dag in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, ve...

Armenian Futuh Narrative

The History of the Armenian priest Lewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic...

Back to School in Babylonia

This volume-the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Insti...

The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice

Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration IV (Bo 2689-Bo 5660)

This continues the systematic edition of the unpublished Bo-texts in the Museum of Ancient Anatol...

A Day in the Life of a 19th Century Photographer

This children's activity book tells the story of a 19th century photographer assigned to archaeol...

Insights into Islamic Archaeology and Material Culture

This book's fourteen contributors emphasise the need to move beyond orientalist interpretations a...