Death and Glory in the Land of King Midas of the Golden Touch Dr. Beth Dusinberre (University of Colorado Boulder) Of the 35 burial tumuli at the site of Gordion, capital of ancient Phrygia, 11 cover cremation burials. They date between 625 and 525 BCE, spanning some of the most turbulent times in the history […]

Please join us on Friday, March 8, 2019 for the John Howard Young lecture. Dr. Jorge Bravo (University of Maryland College Park) will speak about "Rustic Religion: Material Remains from the Cave of Pan at Marathon." The lecture will be held on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus in Gilman Hall room 50 at 5 pm, with a light […]

ARCE-PA Annual Korsyn Lecture Saturday, March 9, UPenn Museum, Nevil Classroom, 3:30pm Dr. Betsy Bryan, Johns Hopkins University We don't often think about how similar or different ancient Egypt and its religion and politics may have been from our own world today. Yet frequently the strategies and tactics used by authoritarian rulers in ancient history […]

Lecture by Robert F. Mazrim of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey Co-sponsored by the Missouri History Museum

Presented by Kat Hayes

Presented by Katherine Hayes Archaeology undertaken in service of preservation in the 20th century often reflected the values of the time.  At Historic Fort Snelling, archaeology served to bolster a distinctly non-inclusive narrative of American enterprise at the frontier and the triumph of settler rugged individualism. Yet the excavated remains do still hold remnants of other […]

Lecture by Elif Ünlü, Boğaziçi University

Lecture by Jenny L. Davis, UIUC Department of Anthropology

The Lives of Ancient Maya Commoners: How Could We Have Been So Wrong? Dr. Payson Sheets (University of Colorado Boulder) Ancient Maya elites have been the focus of research for well over a century, and for good reasons. They developed the New World’s most sophisticated writing system. Their architecture, sculpture, murals, and other items constitute […]

Dr. David Saunders, Getty Museum Over the last decade, the Antiquities department of the J. Paul Getty Museum has developed a fruitful and enduring partnership with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.  In addition to generous loans for special exhibitions, we have undertaken a series of collaborative conservation projects that have returned individual objects to […]