An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...
The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love between the divine and his people.
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 ...
Dr. Jonathan Valk (Ph.D., New York University) is a historian of the ancient Middle East. He specializes in the history of Assyria in the first and second millennia BCE, a region at the intersection ...
An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq ... Some of the most dramatic changes over recent times can be found along the East African Rift System (EARS), one of the largest rifts in the ...