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Inside Ancient Egypt

Two visitors sit together on a bench, looking at life-size sculptures of people by Malvina Hoffman. In the foreground several bronze busts are displayed in a glass case.

Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman

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Dr Bill Parkinson addresses visiting museum directors from Europe at the Field Museum opening of the First Kings of Europe exhibition in late March 2023.

First Kings of Europe in Budapest

Several ceramic bowls rest on the seafloor, stuck together along with corroded iron and remnants of sea life.

What We’re Still Uncovering from an 800-Year-Old Shipwreck

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What We're Still Uncovering from an 800-Year-Old Shipwreck

A small crocodile mummy wrapped in brown cloth with the eyes drawn on, and other similar bundles in the background

Animal Mummies for Sale in Ancient Egypt

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Two women wearing headlamps peer into the mouth of a large taxidermy elephant

Q&A with a Conservator on the Complex History of Ivory

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Conservators Eugenie Milroy (left) and Stephanie Hornbeck examine the teeth and tusks of one of the Akeley elephants in the Field Museum's Stanley Field Hall

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The Sioux Chef: Reinvigorating Indigenous Food Systems

Two images, one of a man with braids in a chef's coat plating several identical dishes; and several cobs of corn of different colors laid out flat. Sean Sherman by Rina Oh for the James Beard Foundation. Corn cobs from Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, in the Museum's collection.

Left: a brown, cracked skull; right: a group of people sitting on the short of a river, with two people standing and addressing the group

6,000-Year-Old Skull Could Be from the World’s Earliest Known Tsunami Victim

The Aitape skull, the 6,000-year-old cranium that scientists believe belongs to the world’s earliest known tsunami victim. 

6,000-Year-Old Skull Could Be from the World's Earliest Known Tsunami Victim

Old city ruins, including a pyramid and a central square

Can We Learn from the History of Ancient Cities?

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The Pyramid of the Sun and the Street of the Dead at Teotihuacan. Photo: Linda M. Nicholas.

The Field Museum

Mysterious Madonna and Child Scroll

Left: Pieces of eggshell and small bones laid out in rows. Right: A young boy and an older woman carry live turkeys by the feet through a market.

Unearthing Evidence of Turkey Domestication 1,500 Years Ago

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Left: Turkey bones and eggshells from 1,500 years ago discovered in Oaxaca, Mexico. Right: A boy with domestic turkeys in Oaxaca. Both images 

Illustration of a long house with wood beams

Democracy and the Iroquois Constitution

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Illustration of an Iroquois Long House. Image

Why did King Tut have a flat head?

Two sculptures, created by French paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès, give a breathtakingly lifelike look at human relatives—Homo ergaster and Homo neanderthalensis.

Bringing Neanderthals to Life: Sculptures of Elisabeth Daynès

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Copyright ès — Reconstructions: Elisabeth Daynès Paris

A coastline with cliffs, green hills, and blue water with a small sailboat

Window to the Past: Alepotrypa Cave

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Documenting and Cleaning 'Minirdis'

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Conservator Mimi Leveque examines and documents the condition of the shroud. Photo credit – JP Brown.

Two views of the coffin of Minirdis, from above (front) and one side.

Opening the Coffin of Minirdis

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Photos by Sophie Hammond-Hagman.

Mummy Brains

Putting Heads Together

America for Bulgaria Foundation (ABF) Archaeological Program at the AIA-APA Conference

Radiography of a Baining Mask

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Piecing Together Early Societies

The Lom River Valley Unseen

Gilded Lady, The Mummy

Science at FMNH : Ep. 42 – The Production of Maya Blue

Science at FMNH : Ep. 41 – Ancient Trade and Political Relationships in South America

Science at FMNH : Ep. 35 - Exploring Kish

CT Scanning our Mummies

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CT scan of a mummy

Field Museum–University of Illinois at Chicago Joint Doctoral Program In Anthropology

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The Roman and Etruscan Gallery

Culture

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Chinese rubbing in vermilion ink. Catalog Number 341389. Photographer Karen Bean.

Julia Kennedy

Erin Murphy

Lauren Hancock

Emily Starck

Michelle Brownlee

Sam Frank

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Stacy Drake

Elana Dux

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Christopher Philipp

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Jamie Kelly

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JP Brown

William Parkinson

Ryan Williams

Laure Dussubieux

John Terrell

Alaka Wali

Robert Martin

Robert  Martin

Gary Feinman

Lisa Niziolek

Foreman Bandama

Christina Friberg

Matthew Nelsen

Jonathan Haas

Field Museum Alters Cultural Galleries in Response to Updated Federal Regulations

Cyrus Tang Hall of China

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Pair of stone lions

On the city's lakefront to perform a chant to greet the sunrise, Chicago-based Hula practitioners gather around an `ipu heke, a traditional Hawaiian percussion implement made of two gourds.

Chicago’s Legacy Hula

Our Voices, Our Stories

Three educators stand around a table with specimens, including a raccoon skin, bat, bird, and pair of antlers.

Learning Through Collections Professional Development Series

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Field Museum Connections: AANHPI Stories & the TEAACH Act Workshops

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New Guinean Clays

Aztec, Inca and Maya Collections

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Ceramic, flute whistle.
FMNH Cat #: 241014

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Brazil Collections

Boone Collection

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Drama masks (topeng) from West and Central Java, Indonesia, c.1880. Used in a wayang topeng dance drama in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. About 80 such masks are in the collection of The Field Museum. Carved from soft wood and painted in traditional patterns and colors, they are among the oldest and most beautiful Indonesian masks in the United States.  GN91437_14d

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Javanese Mask Collection

Chinese Rubbings Collection

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Curating the collections with communities and scholars

Image depicting volunteers Etta McKenna, Oscar Docto, Tess Madden, and Alpha Sadcopen posing with objects within CAS Mezzanine storeroom.

Anthropology Curation Portal

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Africa Collections

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Coastal Peru Collection

Montez Collection

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Photo Archives - Native American Collection

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Mesoamerica and Central America Collections

Photo Archives - Africa Collection

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Photo Archives - Philippines Collections

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Latin American Textile Collections

World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 Collection

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Cast of "Stela A" from Copan, Honduras. It is pictured here on display in the hall of Aboriginal Sculpture in the South Court at the Field Columbian Museum, c.1905. Collected by Edward H. Thompson, this stela cast was originally on exhibit in the Anthropological Building of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. © The Field Museum, CSA17054, Photographer Charles Carpenter.

Andean Fine-grained Volcanics

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Andean Clays

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Asian Textile Collections

Detail of an embroidered cotton sleeve band, Mianyang, Sichuan, China. Collected by Carl Schuster. Catalog Number 2724.234232. © The Field Museum.

Schuster Collection

Detail of a reproduction bronze hydria from Pompeii, Italy. Original in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli).Catalog Number 202.24101.© The Field Museum.

Roman and Etruscan Collections

Australian Collection

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Polynesian Collections

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Detail of mahau - exterior porch panels from Ruatepupuke II – wharenui – Maori meeting house from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. Catalog Number 967.143961. © The Field Museum, A109973_15c, Photographer Ron Testa.

North American Obsidian

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Paul S Martin Collection

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Paul Martin's excavation crew at work at a cave site in New Mexico, c.1950. © The Field Museum, A93205, Photographer W. Tod Egan.

North America Collections

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Detail of a transformation mask (shown open), representing a shaman, which was fashioned from carved and painted cedar by Xániyus (Bob Harris) before 1893. Kwakiutl, Vancouver Island, Northwest Coast.

Micronesian Collections

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Micronesian navigation chart made from bamboo strips, cowrie shells, and fiber string from Majuro, Marshall Islands and collected by Marvin Montel-Cohen.  Catalog Number 3346.268405. © The Field Museum, A3513_268405_ATFront.

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Hopewell Collection

Early Pacific Collections

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Malanggan (also malagan) figure - carved and painted wooden bird with outstretched wings holding a serpent in its beak from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.  Catalog Number 967.98641.  Received from J. F. G. Umlauff.  © The Field Museum, A110311c, Photographers* Ron Testa and Diane Alexander White.*

A. W. F. Fuller Collection

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Mask from Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea collected by A.W.F. Fuller (originally given to the Chichester Museum by Miss Newman of Midhurst, England in 1859.  This wooden mask, with opercula eyes, fiber hair, and painted with red ochre, lime, and black pigment, is one of the earliest known masks from New Ireland.  Catalog Number 2616.276499. Photo Archives ID # A114455_02d.

A. B. Lewis Collection

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Anthropology Collections

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