This volume-companion to the exhibition 'Back to School in Babylonia' of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago-explores education in the Old Babylonian period. The essays offer a history of House F at Nippur and the catalogue presents the 126 objects, mainly cuneiform tablets, included in the exhibition.

This volume--the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago--explores education in the Old Babylonian period through the lens of House F in Nippur, excavated jointly by the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1950s and widely believed to have been a scribal school. The book's twenty essays offer a state-of-the-art synthesis of research on the history of House F and the educational curriculum documented on the many tablets discovered there, while the catalog's five chapters present the 126 objects included in the exhibition, the vast majority of them cuneiform tablets.