St. Louis Society National Lecture with Dr. Derek Kennet
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Tess Davis, “Blood Antiquities: Tomb Raiders, Art Smugglers, and the Black Market in Cultural Treasures”
Semans Auditorium (Room 117), Belk Visual Arts Center 315 N. Main St., Davidson, NC, United StatesWe all know the thrill of tomb raiding adventure novels and Hollywood films—Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, Thomas Crown—hunting for hidden treasures. But the real stories of looted and trafficked cultural […]
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“The Strait of Hormuz through time: tracing the archaeology of a key global trading connection from the Bronze Age to the Portuguese”
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario, CanadaDerek Kennet (University of Chicago)
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The Queens of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace: Beauty, Power, and Presence in the Neo-Assyrian World, c. 8
Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesToo often overshadowed by the legacy of Assyria’s ancient kings, this presentation illuminates the queens who reigned with them in ancient Iraq during the ninth and centuries BCE. We focus […]