Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

@ISAC_UChicago

ISAC of @UChicago, a leading research center for the cultures of ancient West Asia and North Africa, houses a world-renowned museum.

Chicago, IL

isac.uchicago.edu

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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
@ISAC_UChicago
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It is not just ancient people who liked to depict mountains, but also modern people as well. Here we can see in the photography from the ISAC work at the site of Persepolis in Iran in the 1930s, how the photographer has clearly deliberately framed the Mountain of Mercy
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
@ISAC_UChicago
Nov 11
It's #TabletTuesday! Mountains can also be used to describe commodities, which indicates that it was clearly important to people to know if certain plants and animals came from the mountains. These two tablets look very similar and both date to the Ur III period and are written
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
@ISAC_UChicago
Nov 10
ISAC Job opportunity: Postdoctoral Scholar in Hittitology at the Chicago Hittite Dictionary The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) of the University of Chicago invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar in Hittitology for a two-year appointment.
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
@ISAC_UChicago
Nov 10
This week we're looking at mountains in the ISAC Museum collection! Although they are impressive geographical features, the depiction of mountains does not always show them as particularly imposing. Here we see a mountain at the center of a contest scene between a man and a water
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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
@ISAC_UChicago
Nov 6
We've extended the deadline to register for the ASOR-ISAC teacher workshop which will be on November 21! Join the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) and the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) for a hands-on workshop created for K–12 educators.
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