In any conflict, the safety and security of people come first. At the same time, cultural heritage is inseparable from the communities connected to it and from the broader human legacy it holds, making its protection especially urgent right now.
Grateful to contribute to “Middle East Cultural Heritage at Risk in Armed Conflict Project”, a new effort with ISAC’s CAMEL Lab mapping heritage sites damaged by the ongoing conflict—already documenting 70 sites in Iran, with more expected as information becomes available: heritagewatch.camelab.net
Greeennnn = arsenic??? 😝
A heartfelt thank you to the entire team who contributed to this multiyear project—it has truly been a labour of love 🙏
A celebration of the extraordinary depth and beauty of Iranian history & culture ✨💙
“Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum: From Prehistory to the Achaemenid Period” by Abbas Alizadeh, Research Assoc Prof of Iranian Archaeology.
Download & purchase:
isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/ISACMP/isacmp3
🙏 @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Nowruz—a time to celebrate the Persian New Year and Persian culture at the ISAC Museum 🌺 🔥 🎶
Drop in anytime from 1:00–3:00 pm for hands-on activities and gallery experiences, then join us at 3:00 pm for live music from the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble.
Register: isacnowruz2026.eventbrite.com
✨🎨 Now available for all your coloring dreams — “Megiddo Ivories Coloring Book” 🖍️✨
Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0
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Thanks @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social!
Checkout my latest article “From Armageddon to Chicago: The Legacy of the University of Chicago’s Megiddo Expedition" in the new issue of NEA!
Snapshots of “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures” (May 13–Oct 31, 2025) @ the Acropolis Museum. Also very fun to see my ISAC object labels displayed with their Greek-translation counterparts 😆 🇬🇷
#michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice
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The exhibit is exceptional. Well worth the trip!!!
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Thrilled to be celebrating the installation of J.L. Smith’s Persepolis Paintings in the ISAC Museum’s Persian Gallery! I’ll speak about Smith & the history of the paintings’ creation & display before being joined in conversation with 3 exceptional conservators who’ve helped make this a reality 🖤🎨
Now available to stream: exhibition lecture “(Un)broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” presented live Jan 2024 in connection with ISAW exhibition, “Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq.”
isaw.nyu.edu/events/archi...
Tell me how this 19th-c. chair @brooklynmuseum.org is a perfect embodiment of Falkor, the luckdragon with big dopey eyes, scaly back and all, yet it predates both Michael Ende’s 1979 Die unendliche Geschichte book & Wolfgang Peterson’s 1984 The Neverending Story film?! 🐉 #theneverendingstory #falkor
ASOR will offer the Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship in 2025. The fellowship, valued at $5,000, is awarded to a scholar/poet/writer/artist whose project proposal comes closest in scope to Herbert Mason’s lifework and is in English. Applications are due March 3, 2025. Read more here: buff.ly/3C6HZw0
#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...
The gift I didn’t know I needed 👽 🎅 😂 #merrychristmas #anunnaki
So grateful both to ASOR & TARII for helping make the Tigris Travel Grant a success in its first year and to the three recipients—Jaafar Jotheri, Mustfaa Al-Hussainy, Hasan Ahmed Qasim Berwary—thank you for sharing your research & your company with us in Boston! Read more here: buff.ly/3Dm8jm6
Join the fun! 🤩
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Wonderfully its story also extends into the gallery’s other display’s, encouraging visitors to find connections throughout. #syrianheritage #iraqiheritage #livinglandscapes #buildingblocks #sensoryexperience #memories #connections #communities #hope #contemporaryartinarchaeologicalmuseums
Here, Mohamad uses replicas of artifacts from the collection as building blocks in the creation of a sensorially rich, deeply profound, incredibly detailed, and ever surprising living neighborhood reminiscent of urban spaces of Syria and Iraq. The longer you look, the more you see. 2/
It feels like a fitting day to share photos from a recent visit with the imaginative & masterful Syrian-American artist & architect #MohamadHafez to explore his work “Eternal Cities,” installed as part of the new Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Gallery at Yale Peabody Museum curated by Agnete Lassen. 1/
#SensesSunday a midkhan (incense burner) used to burn oud to scent the guest area, or majlis, where it was passed around to guests as a sign of hospitality, today on display in the National Museum of Qatar, Doha #incense #incenseburner #qatar
Contingent Faculty Grants: The grants provide professional development and financial assistance funds to contingent faculty. All contingent faculty who study or teach about the ancient Mediterranean and its reception are eligible. Application Period: October 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023
Applications for the 2023-2024 Contingent Faculty Grants are due December 31st! The grants provide professional development and financial assistance funds to contingent faculty who study or teach about the ancient Mediterranean and its reception: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...
The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding.
Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone!
#museumjobs 📜 #histsci
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/
“Masterpieces of the MANN,” a special exhibit currently on display at Maraya, #AlUla, showcasing collections from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, including those of Alexander III of Macedon, Trajan & Marcus Aurelias, and a mosaic replete with beautiful creatures 🐍 #SaudiArabia
#SensesSunday Short circular ceramic incense burner from the Assyrian capital Dur-Šarrukin, Iraq, excavated by ISAC’s Khorsabad Expedition & recorded on this Catalog Card, in the ISAC Museum Archives 💨 🔥 #Assyria #Incense #Archives
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...