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Discovering New Pasts

The OI at 100

T P J van den Hout editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

Published:31st Dec '19

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In celebration of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago’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 invite you to join us on an adventure. Explore the legacy of James Henry Breasted and the institute he founded. Discover the inner workings of the OI and its museum. Travel across multiple continents to learn about ground-breaking research. Enjoy a unique collection of nearly six hundred images, all in one publication for the first time. Learn the story of the Institute's development—from being one man's dream to becoming one of the world's pre-eminent authorities on over ten thousand years of human civilization.

ISBN: 9781614910497

Dimensions: 254mm x 292mm x 30mm

Weight: 2428g

450 pages