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  • “Tutankhamun’s Funeral—What We Know from KV62”

    Rehm Library, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St., Worcester, MA, United States

    Dr. Nicholas R. Brown, a postdoctoral fellow in Egyptology at Yale University and director of excavations at the ancient site of Deir el-Ballas, will explore what the archaeological record reveals about the state funeral in ancient Egypt. Dr. Brown will analyze the unique funeral procession scene depicted in the tomb's Burial Chamber and its connection […]

  • AIA Archaeology Hour October 2025: Shipping Stone for Justinian’s Empire?

    Featured
    Virtual Event

    Join the AIA for a fascinating evening with Justin Leidwanger as he gives the International Archaeology Day month AIA Archaeology Hour talk "Shipping Stone for Justinian’s Empire?" This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Register here!

  • TBA (Denver)

    TBA (Denver 1) Denver, CO, United States

    Anna Marguerite McCann and Robert D. Taggart Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology Time TBA

  • The Myth of Ariadne from the Labyrinth to the Walls of Pompeii

    Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University 801 S. Patterson Ave, Oxford, Ohio

    The Archaeological Institute of America- Dayton Society, Miami University Department of History, and the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum (RCCAM) at Miami University present the Archaeological Institute of America's Peter H. von Blanckenhagen Memorial Lecture by Dr. Lillian Joyce, Associate Professor of Art History at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Most people are […]

  • The Origins of the Alphabet and How It Spread Across the World

    Public Lecture by Professor Wayne T. Pitard Abstract: Essentially all of the alphabetic scripts in the world descend from a single script invented probably during the 20th century BCE by a Canaanite in the southern Levant. This lecture will provide a tour of the extraordinary development of the alphabet from its beginnings to its eventual […]

  • From Berlin to Berkeley: The History of the Edward Gans Collection of Seals and Its Hidden Gems – a Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture

    The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures currently houses the Edward Gans Collection of Seals, comprising almost seven hundred seals and seal-related objects from a variety of periods, extending from the Neolithic Middle East to Post-classical Mesoamerica. Since 2023, a new team of Berkeley scholars has been working on the collection to prepare it […]

  • Water Histories: How 8,000 Years of Fluctuating Lake Levels in North-Central Florida Affected Indigenous Land Use and Regional Interactions

    University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FL, United States

    Recent survey of a tract of public land on Lake Pithlachocco in Alachua County, Florida revealed an 8,000-year record of horizontal stratigraphy extending 500m from and 5m above the modern lake shore. The first half of this record reflects the mid-Holocene expansion of surface water regionally, but the second half reflects a regime of low-frequency, […]

  • Reading Matthew’s Gospel in the Cemeteries of Roman Syria and Judea

    Zoom 4985 SW 74th Court, Miami, FL, United States
    Virtual Event

    Why does the Gospel of Matthew prefer a different word for burials, taphoi, than the other New Testament gospels? And why does Matthew consistently revise his sources to describe Jesus’s burial as costly? Matthew emphasizes that Jesus was anointed with expensive spices and buried in a rich patron’s new tomb, which makes it appear as […]