Across the world’s oceans, UNESCO estimates that more than three million shipwrecks rest on the seafloor. Yet this represents only a fraction of our underwater cultural heritage (UCH). Lakes, rivers, estuaries, and inland waterways hold their own archives of human movement and innovation. Beyond shipwrecks lie submerged airplanes, landscapes, settlements, and industrial sites—a vast, largely […]
UWM students are invited to join Prof. Alice Futrell for an informal chat about the field(s) of archaeology, art history, and the ancient world, discuss graduate school and post-grad school […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
A lecture in celebration of International Archaeology Day by Alison Futrell, Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Futrell's research is guided by her interest in the performance and imagery of power in the Roman Empire, with particular focus on spectacle and gender. She is also fascinated by representations of the ancient Mediterranean in […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University Gilman Hall room 50 The Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem: History as Metaphor and Simile In 701 BCE, the Assyrian army besieged the city of Jerusalem. Different narratives describing this siege are preserved both in the Hebrew Bible and also in the Assyrian king Sennacherib’s own royal annals. In this lecture, […]
Join us for an exploration of the archaeological history of an ancient capital that became a historic Christian city. Sardis, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is known from the Bible as one of the seven cities of Revelation. But before that, it was the capital of Lydia, a legendary ancient empire where coinage was first […]
Join the AIA as Briana Pobiner (Smithsonian) presents the first AIA Archaeology Hour talk the International Archaeology Day 2026 AIA Archaeology Hour talk : "What was the REAL Paleodiet?" This […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lecture
The first presentation in the AIA Dayton 2026-27 Lecture Series presented by Dr. Jeb Card, Associate Teaching Professor in Anthropology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio sponsored by an AIA R.S. Webster Lectureship grant. Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video games, and […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
