Brush Lecture Lecture is free, but registration is required. Reception to follow
Dr. Pedar Foss (Depauw University) It has long been held, on the basis of a letter of Pliny the Younger, that Mt. Vesuvius erupted on 24 August, AD 79. But after excavators began to work at the sites of Herculaneum at Pompeii, some scholars expressed doubts, suggesting a date later in the autumn of that […]
Dr. Pedar Foss (Depauw University) The text of Pliny’s letters for the eruption of Vesuvius may give one date, but what if that date is wrong? How else could we check? This talk follows on the lecture about manuscript and inscriptional evidence to look at the archaeological data for climate, sunlight, coinage, clothing worn by […]
The university discipline of Egyptology has a strikingly diverse history, although it is not widely known among Egyptologists. The way that the history is currently transmitted, we encounter only the usual names: Sir John Gardner Wilkinson and George Rawlinson as early historians, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie, and James Henry Breasted and George Reisner, the first […]
Manton Lecture
Norton Lecture
Lecture by Dr. Rhonda Quinn
Dinner with Professor Tuck will be served in the Hearth Room (Harre Union, 1st floor) at 6:00 PM, the cost is $15 (cash or check payable to Valparaiso University), and reservations must be made by noon on Monday, February 17 by contacting Professor Mark Bartusch at mark.bartusch@valpo.edu, or calling him at 219-464-6881.
