Bio
Ömür Harmansah is Director of the School of Art & Art History and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.As an archaeologist and an architectural historian, Dr. Harmansah specializes in the art, architecture, and material culture of ancient West Asia. He is the author of Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East and Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments.
Dr. Harmansah authored chapters on the art of Mesopotamia, ancient West Asia and West Asian Empires, and ancient Egypt from the Predynastic Nile Valley through the Late Period. He was primary author on Chapter 1, “The Beginnings of Art,” and coordinated contributions from co-authors who are experts on other regions.
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