[Heyworth]

The little-known but really cool little museum in Chicago is the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago--a monument to the Golden Age of Pillage in Archaeology...

[js1138]

Pillage is naughty, but observing the Muslim treatment of artifacts, one wonders what we might lose if we didn't have a bit of pillage.

[Clemenza]

Its a shame, because when I was a Grad student at U of C, the Oriental Institute was closed for renovations (1997-1999). I visited it two years ago and enjoyed it immensely, especially the Assyrian portion of the collection.