To Learn More

If you are interested in learning more about the exhibition and the artifacts and cultures represented, there is much more information in the exhibition's accompanying catalog, The Art of the Everyday: Objects from Ancient Daily Life (2019). Please visit the online CASL Store by clicking the button above, where you can place an order for UM-Dearborn campus pick up (at the Department of Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts, Rm. 3011 CASL Building, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128) or to be shipped (with S&H fee).

There are also many other resources available through the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the collection of Mardigian Library on UM-Dearborn's campus, and open-access research projects and archives online.

• Kelsey Museum of Archaeology: https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey
• Toledo Museum of Art: https://www.toledomuseum.org/
• Detroit Institute of Arts: https://www.dia.org/
• Corning Museum of Glass: https://www.cmog.org/
• The Votives Project (on anatomical votives): https://thevotivesproject.org/
• The Levantine Ceramics Project (pottery from the Levant from ca. 5500 BCE to ca.1920 CE): https://www.levantineceramics.org/?fbclid=IwAR0thUwRjmjMAE7cOD64qTRoyj-TkWgiCBB-nfoSnymkczyde-GWw6LxJyY
• Mardigian Library Catalog: https://library.umd.umich.edu/find/books.php
• UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970): http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/illicit-trafficking-of-cultural-property/1970-convention/
• Washington Post article by Fiona Rose-Greenland on ISIS and looted antiquities (June 3, 2016): https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/03/how-much-money-has-isis-made-selling-antiquities-more-than-enough-to-fund-its-attacks/?utm_term=.85b8f79f8769