Johnathan Hardy, “Wēh-Ardašīr and the Ruins of Qasr bint al-Qadi: Christian Architectural Adaptation in the Sasanian Heartland,” in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall in the Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center at Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul MN 55105 Using previously unpublished site plans and field notes from the 1929/1930 German Oriental Society […]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two early Ptolemaic funerary papyri belonging to a Priest of Horus named Imhotep. A wooden coffin belonging to the same individual was known to have been excavated in 1913 at Meir by Ahmed Kamal, but its whereabouts were unknown. While researching the papyri, Dr. Kamrin discovered that this coffin, […]

Over three centuries ago a large mudslide covered a section of the Makah village of Ozette. In a waterlogged condition, thousands of wood and fiber artifacts were preserved. Working in equal partnership with the Makah Indian Nation, Washington State University (WSU) archaeologists excavated a section of this site; I was the WSU graduate student who […]

Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel Comics all owe a debt to Gilgamesh, a hero in Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the world’s first epic story. Gilgamesh was a historic king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk and probably ruled sometime between 2800 and 2500 BCE. His story has been immortalized as […]

The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Jennifer Miyuki Babcock, Pratt Institute: Man vs. Wild? Rethinking the Interpretation of Human and Animal Representation in Egyptian Art Sunday, January 12, 2020, 3 pm Room 20 Barrows […]

Dr. Irving Finkel (Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East) will present a lecture reviewing his decades of research on the question of ancient games.