Join us for a lecture by Professor John McCloy, Washington State University, who will present results of an investigation into the materials science and processing parameters to fabricate Egyptian blue faience. Recently, our group at Washington State University, with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, recreated Egyptian blue to […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Saturday, February 21 3:30 pm EST Virtual on ZOOM FREE lecture; RSVP required for Zoom link Speaker: Dr. Henning Franzmeier, Senior Research Associate, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia Title: Piramesse - from the City of Wonders to Terra Incognita Abstract: Where today just a typical Egyptian village is located, surrounded by fertile, green fields, 3300 years […]
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Kershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Dr. Megan Perry, "Life, Death, and Disease: Insights from Petra’s Tombs and Cemeteries" Thursday, February 26 at 5:00pm Eastern UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 301 For Zoom attendance, register here: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/GD44nDLmTwKs_QZUh44AFw ABSTRACT Ensconced within the sandstone hills of southern Jordan, evidence from mortuary structures in the ancient Nabataean city of […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
In 2001, flooding near the city of Jiroft in southeastern Iran exposed a vast Bronze Age cemetery. Large quantities of vessels made from a dark soft stone known as chlorite or steatite began to appear on antiquities markets, the majority of which were successfully repatriated by Iranian authorities. These events spurred new archaeological exploration in […]
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