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Dressing Up as an Ancient Assyrian Queen in Life and Death

Spiro Hall 2, Wagner College 631 Howard Avenue (1 Campus Road, Grymes Hill), Staten Island, NY, United States

The Dr. Esther Grushkin Memorial Lecture, presented by Dr. Amy Rebecca Gansell (St. John's University) This presentation takes us into the palaces of ancient Assyria in northern Iraq to discover the robes and regalia worn by queens during the 800s to 600s BCE. Based on artifacts from royal tombs found beneath Nimrud’s Northwest Palace, I […]

Archaeological Oddities in North America

Acton Memorial Library 486 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States

Ken Feder, Ph.D., of Central Connecticut State University asks if archaeologists should rewrite textbooks to include various archaeological oddities found in North America. While his short answer is no, that doesn't make the stories behind them any less interesting. He discusses claims of a hidden history these oddities suggest as described in his book "Archaeological […]

Death Comes to Oplontis: Victims of Mt. Vesuvius Reveal Life in 79 AD

University of British Columbia, Buchanan Bld A103 1866 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Numerous urban centers in the Bay of Naples were completely destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. Pompeii and Herculaneum are the most famous of these, but other areas were also affected and are less understood, even today, because of their location underneath modern development. The villa complex of Oplontis is one […]