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  • Professor Amy Gansell, “The Queens of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace: Beauty, Power, and Presence in the Neo-Assyrian World, c. 865–705 BCE”

    Nearly three thousand years ago, at the ancient site of Nimrud (near modern Mosul, Iraq), a succession of ten Neo-Assyrian kings reigned in collaboration with their queens from the magnificence of the Northwest Palace, the seat of the empire and center of their world. Too often overshadowed by the well documented legacy of Neo-Assyrian kings, […]

  • Life in a Garrison of the Imperial Frontieron the Lower Danube in the 6th and 11th centuries

    University of Florida, Library West, Room 212 400 SW 13th Street, Gainesville, FL, United States

    Capidava was a Roman and Byzantine fort on the Lower Danube. Although the object of extensive archaeological study, the living conditions of the soldiers stationed there in the 6th and the 11th century have never been examined in a detailed, comparative mode. In both centuries, the population inside the fort included both women and children, […]

  • TBA (North Alabama (Huntsville))

    TBA (North Alabama (Huntsville)) Huntsville, AL, United States

    Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA

  • Seeing the Past Anew: The Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology’s Toolkit for Accessible 3D Heritage

    University of Florida, Library West, Room 212 400 SW 13th Street, Gainesville, FL, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Lecturer: Dr. Eleni Bozia Associate Professor, Department of Classics Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group University of Florida Archaeology, epigraphy, and heritage sites point to and recall the past, and reasonably so. People usually turn to them for Instagram photos or contemplate on them because they are told that "history may not repeat itself, […]

  • The Past Keeps Getting Bigger: Living with the Past in the Present and the Future at Tell Dhiban, Jordan

    Business Building 2-09 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    The AIA Helene J. Kantor Memorial Lecture (link: https://www.archaeological.org/endowment/the-helene-j-kantor-memorial-lecture/) Professor Bruce Routledge (University of Liverpool) Tell Dhiban is a large mound in central Jordan occupied since 3000 BCE. It is best known as the capital of the biblical kingdom of Moab and the site of a significant Nabataean temple. However, focusing on separate moments in […]

  • The (Beautiful) Men and Women of Jaina Figurines

    Hybrid

    Lifelike Maya figurines from the Island of Jaina have been collected for almost 200 years, with hundreds now known in collections around the world, from Berlin to Brooklyn, and Los Angeles to Mexico City. These figurines also present the largest corpus of female representations of the ancient Americas, comprising roughly one-third of all known examples. […]

  • AIA Archaeology Hour January 2026: NAGPRA as a Path to Healing and Reciprocity

    Join the AIA for the first AIA Archaeology Hour talk of the new year as new AIA President Brian I. Daniels hosts Danyelle Means for "NAGPRA as a Path to Healing and Reciprocity." This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Have you noticed empty exhibit cases at museums over the past […]

  • “Late Victorian Race Science and its Legacies in Aegean Archaeology”

    Swallow Hall, Room 101 507 South 9th Street, Columbia, MO, United States

    Interested in receptions of antiquity, discoveries in prehistory, and ideas about race during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)’s Central Missouri Chapter as well as the Classics, Archaeology, and Religion (CAR) Department welcome Dr. Anne Duray for her lecture “Late Victorian Race Science and its Legacies in Aegean […]