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  • Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure

    Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Florence Dunn Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University King Menkaure’s Fourth Dynasty pyramid temples at Giza were once filled with statues. The surviving statues represent some of the finest in ancient Egyptian sculpture. Crafted for eternity, these statues served as “bodies” through which the king could function in this life […]

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    AIA Archaeology Hour November 2025: The People’s Arena

    Virtual Event

    Join the AIA for a fascinating evening with Alison Futrell as she gives the International Archaeology Day month AIA Archaeology Hour talk "The People's Arena." This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Register here!

  • Ancient Egypt In Its African Context and at a Crossroads

    Architecture School, UVA, CAM 160 110 Bayly Dr, Charlottesville, VA, United States

    Shomarka Keita, a biological anthropologist affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution and the Institute for Historical Biology, William and Mary, has written extensively on identity and biology in Egypt and Nubia. Egypt is in the northeastern corner of Africa, in essence a 930 mi linear oasis in the eastern Sahara. Due to the history of Egypt's […]

  • The Second Style at Saqqara during the Late Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period: Results of an Investigation and New Observations

    Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Saturday, October 15 3:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Anthro Classroom 345 In-person; no registration required Speaker: Dr. Valentina Anselmi, PhD, UPenn Title: The Second Style at Saqqara during the Late Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period: Results of an Investigation and New Observations Abstract: In the late Old Kingdom, an unusual corpus of artistic production, […]

  • How the Inkas built Sacsayhuaman, Revisited

    About the lecture: This lecture will discuss new ideas about how the Inkas constructed their megalithic walls, such as those of Sacsayhuaman above Cusco in Peru. Although scholars know the technology the Inkas used to quarry, transport, and shape the stones that were used in their high-quality structures, the exact process of how they maneuvered […]

  • What is Industrial Archeology: Its Past and Future

    Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation 154 Moody Street, Waltham, United States

    The field of industrial archeology (IA) is now about 70 years old and has passed through stages of life, from an exuberant youth filled with discovery – the period when the Charles River Museum of Industry was founded – to its sedate present. Interest in the field seems to be waning, judging from declining membership […]

  • Poggio Civitate’s Etruscan Workshop: A Cross-Craft Perspective

    Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture 2316 W 1st Ave, Spokane, WA, United States

    Dr. Nora Donoghue, Gonzaga University visiting professor, will present her research into Etruscan workshop crafting interrelationships at Poggio Civitate. Abstract: Craft production in the ancient world is frequently analyzed by specialists who concentrate on a specific material or class of artifact. This approach overlooks the strong probability that ancient production processes were interrelated through shared […]

  • Navajo/Dene Rock Art

    Longview Park 13525 Clayton Road, Town and Country, MO, United States

    Powerpoint presentation by Richard Jenkison (Independent Researcher) who has spent decades studying the Navajo rock art sites in New Mexico.

  • Battlefield Archaeology

    Virtual Event

    Zoom lecture by Douglas D Scott (Retired Supervisory Archaeologist with the Natinal Park Service). He will discuss theoretical and practical concerns in Battlefield Archaeology and bring examples from his field work at Little Bighorn and various Civil War battlefields.