Visit the Museum
The Edgar and Deborah Jannotta Mesopotamian Gallery of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago.
Scholars from the University of Chicago have conducted excavations and research in Iraq from the end of the nineteenth century until 1990, just before the start of the Gulf War. The Museum’s Mesopotamian collection takes visitors back 150,000 years, and follows the development of human society from nomadic groups to the first cities. The gallery displays 1383 artifacts dating from the Paleolithic Period (around 100,000 BC) to the Sassanian Period (around 400 AD).
