One of the displays based on Oriental Institute field projects will feature the site of Chogha Mish in southwestern Iran, which was excavated between 1961 and 1978. The site yielded important evidence of the development of administrative record-keeping systems that eventually led to the invention of writing. In May 1999, the Joseph and Mary Grimshaw Egyptian Gallery opened to the public. The museum's other three galleries will open over the next two years as work on them is completed. The Museum is closed Mondays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
Admission is free.
It includes the catalogue as well as 967 photographs from the original publication. I wouldn't try it over a modem. 331 B.C. This portion of the gallery is dominated by a series of colossal sculptures made of polished black limestone, including the head of a stone bull that once guarded the entrance to the hundred-columned Throne Hall and column capitals in the forms of bulls and composite creatures. The gallery also will display examples of the world's earliest coinage, part of the treasury of the vast Persian Empire, which at its height stretched from the Indus Valley to the Aegean Sea. The gallery will place special emphasis on the work of Oriental Institute archaeologists who began exploring the region in the 1930s.