Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) was founded in 1919 by James Henry Breasted with the financial support of John D. Rockefeller Jr. as a research laboratory for the investigation of the early human career that would trace humankind’s progress from the most ancient days of the Middle East. ISAC’s goal is to be the world’s leading center for the study of ancient Near Eastern civilizations by combining innovation in theory, methodology, and significant empirical discovery with the highest standards of rigorous scholarship. The ISAC Museum was opened, within the University of Chicago, to the public in 1931. The majority of the ISAC collections came from its expeditions in the Middle East during the 1920s-1940s.
A Connecting Polemic in the Medieval Mediterranean
The Correspondence of Leo III and ĘżUmar II
Volume 6
Outward Appearance versus Inward Significance
Addressing Identities through Attire in the Ancient World
Volume 15
A Master of Secrets in the Chamber of Darkness
Egyptological Studies in Honor of Robert K. Ritner Presented on the Occasion of His Sixty-Eighth Birthday
Volume 3
Chicago on the Nile
A Century of Work by the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago
Volume 2
Medinet Habu X
The Eighteenth Dynasty Temple, Part II: The Facade, Pillars, and Architrave Inscriptions of the Thutmosid Peripteros
Volume 1
Pomp, Circumstance, and the Performance of Politics
Acting Politically Correct in the Ancient World
Volume 16
