Assyrians. Among the treasures in this collection are the

Vulture Stela of King Eahnatum; the Stela of Naram-Sin,

King of Akkad; several statues of Gudea of Lagash; the wall

paintings from Mari; the famous Stela of Hammurabi

containing his law code; and reliefs from the palace of Susa

built for Darius the Great. After a break for independent

lunch in one of the museum cafes, we will complete our visit

to the Near Eastern collection with time remaining to visit

with some of the major works of art in the painting galleries.

The remainder of the day will be at leisure. B

Thursday, May 12: BERLIN - Hotel Palace

We will transfer back to the Charles de Gaulle Airport for our

flight to Berlin where we will be met buy our German Tour

Manager and transferred to the centrally located, Palace

Hotel. The afternoon will be spent visiting the

Charlottenburg Palace Museums. Touring begins in the

Aegyptisches Museum, which houses one of the most

important collections of Ancient Egypt, including the famous

limestone bust of Nefertiti, the portrait of Queen Tiy and

“The Berlin Green Head” (300 BC), as well as the temple

gate of Kalabsha (20 BC), built by the Roman Emperor

Augustus, and the great Column Hall from the pyramid

temple of King Sahure. We then cross the street to the

Sammlung Berggruen to view Germany's largest collection

of Picassos as well as other 20th-century artists. We will

break for lunch in one of the restaurants within

Charlottenburg Palace complex. BLD

Friday, May 13: BERLIN - Hotel Palace

The morning will be spent in East Berlin visiting the

Pergamon Museum, which displays antiquities from both the

ancient orient and the Greek and Roman worlds. Among the

architectural masterpieces reconstructed here in their original

sizes are the famous Hellenistic altar from Pergamon, the

fabulous Ishtar Gate from Babylon, and the Market Gate from

the Greek city of Miletus on the Turkish coast. After a late

lunch at the XII Apostel, a popular Italian restaurant near the

museum, we will explore the historic city during a one hour

boat tour on the Spree, the river that helped build Berlin. BL

Saturday, May 14: BERLIN - Hotel Palace

This morning we return to east Berlin to visit the Altes

Museum which houses the collection formerly on display in

the Charlottenburg and part of the material from the

Pergamon Museum, including the so-called Berlin Amphora

from Vulci, Greek sculpture, Sythian treasures from

Vettersfelde and treasures from Thyreatis in the Pelepponese,

as well as a collection known as the Hildesheim Silver from

the first century BC. The remainder of the day will be at

leisure. B

Sunday, May 15: BERLIN - Hotel Palace

Our first stop this morning will be the new Jewish Museum

designed by the American architect Daniel Libeskind in the

shape of a broken Star of David. The zinc-paneled building

creates a close relationship between the museum’s themes

and its architecture. We then continue to the Dahlem

Museum complex which houses ethnographic and

archaeological artifacts from Southeast Asia, the Americas,

China, India as well as bronzes from Benin and many other

interesting exhibitions. After visiting some of the highlights

of this huge complex together, we will have time to explore

on our own. The remainder of the day will be at leisure to

visit some of the many museums and monuments open

today. This evening we will have our farewell dinner at one of

the city’s fine restaurants. BD

Monday, May 16: BERLIN/CHICAGO

We will transfer to the airport for our flights to Chicago via

Munich.

Archaeological Tours will be happy to assist tour members in

purchasing tickets to cultural performances (opera, theatre,

philharmonic, etc.) available in Paris and Berlin in May.

TOUR COST: $5930

(includes group airfare from Chicago)

Single Supplement: $1155

Land Arrangements Only: $4910

(without airfare from Chicago)

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Friday, May 6: CHICAGO/PARIS

Depart for Paris, via Frankfurt, on Lufthansa Airlines.

Saturday, May 7: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel

We will be met upon arrival at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle

Airport by our tour manager who will accompany our

transfer to the four-star KK Cayre Hotel on the Left Bank.

This afternoon we will walk to the Musée du Louvre for the

first of three visits we will make to this spectacular museum.

The focus of this afternoon’s touring will be the Greek and

Roman collections which include the famous Winged Victory

of Samothrace; the personification of the Tiber River; the

Venus de Milo; the Borghese Hermaphrodite; part of the

sculptural decoration of the Parthenon; the Hera of Samos;

an array of Roman portraits and much more. After an

introductory lecture by Professors Peter Dorman and

Christopher Woods, we will walk to Les Ministeres, a 1900

bistro, for dinner. D

Sunday, May 8: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel

This morning a short drive brings us to St-Germain-en-Laye

where our local guide will introduce us to the art and

artifacts of prehistoric man at the Musée des Antiquités

Nationales. After lunch at Cazaudehore et la Forestière,

we will return to Paris with time for independent touring in

the late afternoon. BL

Monday, May 9: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel

Our second visit to the Musée du Louvre will focus on the

Egyptian collection. Among its treasures are objects from the

First Dynasty royal tombs at Abydos, including the stela of

King Djer; slab stelae from the Giza mastabas near the Great

Pyramid; the Louvre seated scribe; statuary and relief from

the Old and Middle Kingdoms; the gold bowl of general

Djehuty; sculpture and minor arts from the Amarna period,

including the Akhenaton colossus from Karnak; funerary

papyri and luxurious cosmetic implements from the New

Kingdom; stelae of the Apis bulls from Memphis; and the

zodiacal ceiling from the temple of Dendera. This evening’s

will be at Procope, one of the oldest restaurant in Paris.BD

Tuesday, May 10: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel

This morning our guide will take us on a walking tour in the

Marais Quarter, which stretches between the Quartier du

Temple and the Seine. We will examine the pre-Revolution

residential architecture including the oldest square in Paris,

Place des Vosges and the private town-houses of the

nobility. We will stop to visit the Musée Carnavalet’s

collection illustrating the history of Paris. We will then visit

Place de la Concorde to view the obelisk inscribed to

Ramses II, which originally stood in front of the first pylon at

the Luxor Temple. The morning ends at the Cathédrale

Notre-Dame where we will see traces of the city's original

ramparts and visit the archaeological crypt. The afternoon

will be at leisure. B

Wednesday, May 11: PARIS - The KK Cayre Hotel

Our last visit to the Musée du Louvre will take us through

the Near Eastern collection. Five Mesopotamian galleries

focus on the Sumerians, Akkadian empire and the Neo-

Dear Members and Friends of the Oriental Institute:

We are pleased to offer a very special tour to the famed

collections of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern art in

Paris and Berlin. Because the collections are so rich and

diverse, we have invited two Oriental Institute faculty

members-Egyptologist Peter Dorman and Assyriologist

Christopher Woods-to accompany this program.

The Oriental Institute has long-standing academic ties with

the Louvre and with Berlin's Egyptian and Near Eastern

Museums. You will find that this program will enrich your

understanding of our own collections because Paris and

Berlin have material that is so closely related to ours. In

Paris, we will see reliefs from Khorsabad excavated by the

French in the 19th century and, of course, the cast of our

own winged bull that now dominates the Louvre's

Khorsabad Court. We will also study the incredible array of

architectural fragments from Susa that are contemporary

with our own material from Persepolis. Our sections of

glazed brick from Babylon come alive in Berlin as you see

the reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate. Berlin's very strong

holdings of Hittite and Neo-Hittite artifacts are a perfect

complement to our Syrian-Anatolian gallery that opens in

early 2005. The extraordinary holdings from the Amarna

Period in Berlin-including the bust of Nefertiti-recall the

historical setting of our colossal statue of Tutankhamun.

This promises to be an extraordinary trip, with in-depth

visits to the finest collections of ancient art with expert

cultural and historical background provided by Oriental

Institute faculty. Space is limited. I urge you to sign up

today!

Sincerely,

Gil J. Stein

Director

Peter Dorman is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the

Oriental Institute, and Chairman of the Department of

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University

of Chicago. From 1978-88, he served as a Curator in the

Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum

in New York. For the next nine years he served as Field

Director of the Epigraphic Survey in Luxor. Presently, he

teaches Egyptian language and history at the Oriental

Institute, where his research interests include the Theban

region and tomb documentation, as well as the relation of

Egyptian material culture to text and representation.

Christopher E. Woods is currently Assistant Professor of

Sumerology at the Oriental Institute, the University of

Chicago. He received his B.S. from Yale University and his

Ph.D. in Assyriology from Harvard University and has just

completed a three-year fellowship in the Harvard Society of

fellows. His research interests include Sumerian grammar

and writing, and early Mesopotamian religion and history.

He is currently preparing the final volume of the long-term

OI project, Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon, as well as a

book on the Sumerian prefix system.

THE TOUR RATE INCLUDES:

* Transatlantic group flights from Chicago on Lufthansa

Airlines including flight from Paris to Berlin. Surface travel

by motor coach as detailed in the itinerary.

* Accommodations in four-star hotels based on two persons

sharing a twin-bedded rooms with private bath as listed or

similar.

* Meals as listed in the detailed itinerary, table d’hôte.

B - Breakfast L - Lunch D - Dinner.

* Baggage handling for one suitcase and one carry-on bag per

person.

* All gratuities to tour escorts, guides, drivers and porters.

* A $400 contribution to The Oriental Institute.

Not included in the tour cost: Passport fees, excess baggage

charges, transfers to and from airports for tour participants

arriving or departing on flights other than the group flights,

insurance, beverages and items not on the menus.

TARIFFS: Based on foreign exchange rates in effect June 2004

and a minimum of 20 participants. Airfare is based on a group

fare and includes all internal flights. All rates subject to change.

DEPOSITS & PAYMENTS: A $600 deposit is required to book.

Final payment is due sixteen weeks before departure.

CANCELLATIONS: In the event of cancellation, refund in full

less a $200 handling fee will be made until sixteen weeks before

departure. From sixteen to twelve weeks before departure, the

penalty is $1,850. From twelve weeks until six weeks before

departure, the penalty is $2,600 and from six weeks until

departure, the penalty is $3,300 plus any penalties levied by

hotels and operators. These penalties could reach 100%. There

will be no refund for cancellations on the day of departure or

thereafter. In addition, if cancellation is made within 60 days of

departure, the airlines require a penalty. Cancellation of program

by The Oriental Institute/Archaeological Tours: full refund.

NOTE: Neither The Oriental Institute nor Archaeological Tours

accepts liability for any airline penalties incurred by the purchase

of nonrefundable airline tickets.

INSURANCE: Insurance is available to cover these penalties. By

purchasing trip cancellation insurance within 10 days of your

initial deposit, Travelers Insurance Company will waive the

usual exclusion for preexisting medical conditions.

A note about single rooms: For those traveling alone but who prefer to

share with another, we will endeavor to work out congenial rooming

arrangements. If impossible, or if a single room must be assigned due to

the roommate’s canceling or incompatibility, or for any other reason,

even if at the last moment or while on tour, the single supplement or

prorate thereof must be collected.

RESPONSIBILITY: ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOURS, a division of

LINDSTONE TRAVEL, INC., and THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE in

accepting bookings for the tour, clearly stipulates that it is not liable for

the faults or defaults of other companies and persons that may be used

in the carrying out of the tour services; also for accidents, baggage

losses, delays, strikes, political unrest, riots and acts of God and war. In

the event it becomes necessary or advisable for the comfort or well-being

of the passengers, or for any reason whatsoever, to alter the itinerary or

arrangements, such alterations may be made without penalty to the

operator. Additional expenses, if any, shall be borne by the passengers.

The right is also reserved to withdraw this tour; also to decline to accept

or retain any persons as members of the tour. IATA carriers concerned

are not to be held responsible for acts, omissions or events during the

time passengers are not on board. The passage contract in use by the

companies concerned shall constitute the sole contract between the

company and purchaser of these tours and/or passengers.

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Museums of Paris & BerlinMay 5 - 16, 2005

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