<sod>The '''Institute for the Study of the Ancient World''' (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education at New York University.  ISAW's mission is to cultivate comparative, connective investigations of the [[ancient history|ancient world]] from the [[Ancient Near East|western Mediterranean]] to [[Ancient China|China]]. Areas of specialty among ISAW's faculty include the Greco-Roman world, the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Central Asia and the Silk Road, East Asian art and archaeology, Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, ancient science, and digital humanities. <eod>
<sod>The '''Institute for the Study of the Ancient World''' (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education at New York University.  ISAW's mission is to cultivate comparative, connective investigations of the [[ancient history|ancient world]] from the [[Ancient Near East|western Mediterranean]] to [[Ancient China|China]]. Areas of specialty among ISAW's faculty include the Greco-Roman world, the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Central Asia and the Silk Road, East Asian art and archaeology, Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, ancient science, and digital humanities.<eod>