Water has been the central element of Christian baptism since the very beginnings of Christianity. Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, has always been the primary initiation ritual […]
There Is More To Egypt than Tut: Challenges for Egyptology and Egyptologists The Archaeological Institute of America, Westchester Society, and the New York chapter of the American Research Center in […]
Deepening our understanding of African heritage often starts in spaces that celebrate our history, but while museums house these stories, it is archaeology that unearths them. While the world is […]
Organizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio University; Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College In his 1965 book Sklaverei und Humanität, Joseph Vogt offered a description of Roman slavery in which the enslaved accommodated themselves to the moral universe created by their enslavers. A dozen years later Moses Finley delivered a riposte to Vogt in a […]
