Oriental Institute is a name given to a number of institutions of higher education throughout the world that are engaged in the study of Asian culture, languages and history. Traditionally, such institutes focus on the historic Near East, but this is not necessarily the case today. Some institutions of higher education in Asia are called Oriental Institutes, but are not specifically focused on Asian culture
Individual Oriental Institutes are:
Oriental Institute, Chicago — world-class Near-Eastern archaeology museum, part of theUniversity of Chicago Oriental Institute, Oxford — part of theUniversity of Oxford - Pontifical Oriental Institute — in
Rome - Oriental Institute in Sarajevo — a rich collection of Oriental manuscripts
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute — in Pune- School of Oriental and African Studies — part of the
University of London - Oriental Institute, ASCR — part of the
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague - Oriental Institute, FESTU — part of the
Far Eastern State Technical University in Vladivostok - Institute of Oriental Studies, Warsaw — part of Warsaw University
- Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge — part of the
University of Cambridge
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