The Netherlands Institute for the Near East

Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten  -  Institut néerlandais du Proche-Orient

De Liagre Böhl collection

NINO is the owner of approximately 3,000 cuneiform tablets of Sumerian and Babylonian/Assyrian origin, the largest collection of its kind in the Netherlands. The collection was brought together in the 1920s and 1930s by F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl, Profes ... read more

NINO Collection glass slides

NINO owns an interesting and old collection of hundreds of glass slides, formerly used for projection. They date mostly from the 1920’s to 1950’s. With additional funding by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichtin ... read more

Frank Scholten legacy

The Scholten Photographic Collection comprises ca. 22,000 original photographs that Frank Scholten took on his travels through the Middle East in 1920-1923. The images have been digitised and are available in open access. read more

De Buck archive

NINO holds the research materials collected by Prof. Dr Adriaan de Buck, pertaining to his publication of The Egyptian Coffin Texts. read more