This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome The starlight we see is as old as Earth’s ancient rocks The starlight we see ...

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

A small but revolutionary group pursued a new idea: That civilization began in the ancient Middle East. In 1919, Breasted founded the Oriental Institute (OI), kicking off a century of archaeology and ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year Eli Wizevich The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third ...