Discovering New Pasts: The OI at 100
English
In celebration of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicagos 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 developmentfrom being one man's dream to becoming one of the world's pre-eminent authorities on over ten thousand years of human civilization.
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