Oriental Institute

The filmmakers of "Letters from Baghdad" will be at the museum on Wednesday.

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The museum is offering a crash course in how the ancient society drank with real beer.

Oriental Institute researchers quickly learned about the physical trauma one mummy had been through.

The museum is showing "Land of the Pharaohs," which can't seem to get things right about ancient Egypt.

The tour gives a chance for parents to visit the otherwise-quiet museum with their youngest kids.

Museum researchers and Timeline Theatre will join up to talk about the looting of Iraq's museums.

Museum Campus South institutions will host evening events all summer for the Summer Nights series.

Tours will be given of "A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Old Cairo."

The museum will open for playing games popular in ancient Egypt, Assyria and Persia on Saturday.

The museum will host a haunted tour through the galleries.

Ron De Jesus Dance will perform scenes from "Osiris and Isis," which will premiere in 2015.

The documentary chronicles the rise of archeology from treasure hunters seeking pillage.

Seven museums will offer free shuttle service around Hyde Park and to downtown on weekends in August.

Assyrian chef Atorina Zomaya will cook meals from ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia.