Focus in on the transmission, loss, and rediscovery of knowledge about the remote antiquity of the Middle East with the Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century module. Then, learn about America’s continued imagining and stereotyping of the Middle East in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries module.
Select a perspective
Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Matthew W. Stolper
Professor of Assyriology and the John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies, Emeritus
Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
John Woods
Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History, and of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Alexander Barna
Outreach Coordinator, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
Empires to Nation-States 
