Virtual Symposium: 20 Years of Gold on Athena
2022-08-23 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | The Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join the Parthenon for a virtual talk on Tuesday, August 23, at 6 PM Central. This online Symposium is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:
Twenty years ago, the colossal statue of Athena Parthenos inside the Nashville Parthenon underwent a transformation. After standing as a white statue from 1990-2002, a team of experts and volunteers added over 8 pounds of gold leaf plus colorful paint details to Athena. Join this Symposium to hear more about the gold gilding process and this incredible project that changed the way millions of Parthenon visitors see ancient statues.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Micki and Mitch Cavanah, Reed’s Gold Leaf
For more than 30 years, Micki and Mitchell Cavanah have been perfecting the fine tradition of gilding (gold leafing) and coordinating with other gilders and craftsmen from related fields to ensure the mutual preservation of the art form of antique & frame restoration. Micki and Mitchell are expert gold gilders and were involved with the project that added gold and paint to the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Naos over the summer of 2002.
Micki and Mitchell are long-time members of the prestigious Society of Gilders, of which Micki has previously served as Vice-President and currently serves on the board of trustees. Both are well-respected educators in the arts of restoration and gilding who have worked on famous sites all over the United States including the Louisiana State Museum, Chicago’s Glessner House, and memorials in Washington DC including the Iwo Jima Memorial and Marconi Memorial.

Consumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria
2022-08-28 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a virtual lecture by Dr. Thomas Landvatter, University of Michigan:
Consumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria
Sunday, August 28, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Zoom Lecture. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members, please send any registration requests no later than Friday, August 26. The number of registrations is limited, so the sooner you register, the better.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC ePublicity
About the Lecture:
Mummification is, of course, the burial practice most associated with ancient Egypt. It may come as a surprise, then, that for a period of time cremation – the very antithesis of mummification – is attested in Egypt. During the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BCE), when Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of Graeco-Maedonian origin, it is clear that mummification remained the burial treatment of choice for many elite classes across Egypt. However, a significant minority of burials in the capital of Alexandria and elsewhere were in fact cremations. In this talk, I explore the cremation burials of Ptolemaic Alexandria, who used cremation and why, and what cremation reveals about the cultural and social environment of that city. I argue that these cremation burials and their meaning can only be understood in relation to Egyptian mummification and other cultural practices, as well as the unique social and cultural environment of early Alexandria.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Tom Landvatter (PhD, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan), is Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His teaching and research interests center on the history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE), in particular Cyprus and Ptolemaic Egypt. He has excavated in Egypt at both Mendes and, especially, Abydos, which has been an ongoing focus of his research and publications. Currently he co-directs an excavation at the Hellenistic fortification of Vigla, near Larnaca, Cyprus.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://arce-nc.org/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.

“Moral Zoning” and the Visibility of Prostitution at Pompeii
2022-09-07 19:00 (America/New_York) | Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, 44106, United States

Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City
2022-09-08 19:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | HIghsmith Union, UNC Asheville, One Carmichael Heights UNCA, Asheville, NC, 28804, United States
Award winning author and journalist Andrew Lawler will give a lecture on his most recent book Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City on September 8 at 7:30 pm in the Mountain View Suites in Highsmith Student Union. Lawler, who has won multiple journalism awards for his articles, is the author of two other books– The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a national bestseller, and Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization. Lawler has authored more than a thousand newspaper and magazine articles from more than two dozen countries and his writings includes publications in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and many others. As a contributing writer for Science and contributing editor for Archaeology, Lawler’s work has appeared several times in The Best of Science and Nature Writing.
Please join us for his talk on ‘Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City’ on September 8 at 7:30 pm, Mountain View Suites in Highsmith student union.
Contact: Laurel Taylor, Department of Art and Art History,
President, Western North Carolina Archaeological Institute of America Chapter

Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead
2022-09-11 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
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. Marissa A. Stevens, UCLA:
Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead
Sunday, September 11, 2022, 3 PM Pacific Time
Room 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)
UC Berkeley
Please note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture.
Glenn Meyer
ARCE-NC Publicity Director
About the Lecture:
Twenty-first Dynasty funerary papyri – consisting of texts and images from the Book of the Dead, the many Underworld Books, and other cosmographic scenes – have always fascinated Egyptologists for what they reveal about Egyptian afterlife beliefs and their understanding and conceptualization of the underworld. But these documents are also social objects. The creation, ownership, and use of these papyri can shed much light about the deceased who reap the religious benefit of the texts and on the family of the deceased, who also benefit from these objects in social and ideological ways. Studying these papyri as objects of social life, we can learn about temple life, titles and rank, family structure, inheritance, and social status of the deceased and the families they left behind. Funerary papyri were therefore used as a form of social competition, and reveal much about the mindset of the elite priests of 21st Dynasty Thebes.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Marissa Stevens is the Assistant Director of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. Trained as an Egyptologist who studies the materiality, social history, and texts of the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Combining art historical and linguistic approaches, her research interests focus on how objects can solidify, maintain, and perpetuate social identity, especially in times of crisis when more traditional means of self-identification are absent.
About ARCE-NC:
For more information, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/, https://arce-nc.org/, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
Parking for the event is available in UC lots all day on weekends, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/

CANCELLED - Working from Home: Assessing the Significance of Specialized Craft Production Based in Households in the Aegean Bronze Age
2022-09-13 17:00 (America/New_York) | California
This lecture has been cancelled.

Donald P. Ryan: “In the Footsteps of Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings”
2022-09-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver) | Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, WA, 99201, United States
The archaeological exploration of ancient Egypt’s royal New Kingdom cemetery,
the Valley of the Kings, offers a rich history of fascinating discoveries made by determined
and often eccentric individuals including Howard Carter, who was well involved in the
Valley decades before he encountered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. In this lecture,
Don Ryan will describe some of his own work in the Valley of the Kings during which he
literally followed in the footsteps of Carter, including the re-excavation of three tombs
discovered by the famed archaeologist early in his career. One tomb is especially
controversial with its occupant identified by some as the female ruler, Hatshepsut, after its
rediscovery by Ryan.

“Barbarians” and Bronzes: The Origins of Civilization in Ancient Vietnam
2022-09-15 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Alumni Hall 302 (“Trustees Room’), Knox College, Galesburg, IL, 61401, United States
Joukowsky Lecture

Plumbing the Depths: Exploring Violence and Warfare in Humanity’s Past
2022-09-16 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Knight Auditorium, The Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign, 1 W. Green St, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States

Musical Performance and Talk on the Rock Gongs of Sudan
2022-09-18 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | California
Percussionist Jesse Stewart will give us a live demonstration on his lithograph as well as a talk on early instruments and music. This will be followed by a lecture on the rock gongs of Sudan by Yahia Fadl Tahir, who sends the following abstract:
Rock gongs are naturally situated rock that resonate when struck and show evidence of use as an idiophone. Rock gongs are mostly found in Africa, but also in other contexts. Rock gongs are common features in Sudan e.g., in the north, 3rd cataract region.
To investigate the rock gongs in our region, their archaeological contexts, surviving traditions, and ritual practice in the vicinity of these rocks were studied.
In the archaeological context, it is observed that 46% of rock gong sites are associated with Neolithic occupations, 62% with Kerma occupations, 23% with Christian cross drawings, 15% near churches (KBD 019 and MAS 031) and 69% of rock gongs are associated with rock drawings of animals.
Many traditions, ceremonies, and rituals were practiced on rocks from different parts of the Third Cataract Region along the Nile. Ritual practices and ceremonies performed are wind-making, protection from the devil, marriage ceremonies, and circumcision ceremonies.

Virtual Symposium: Pandora & Polychromy on the Base of Athena
2022-09-19 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | The Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join us for a free virtual talk on Monday, September 19, at 6 PM Central. This Virtual Symposium is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:
The ancient writer Pausanias said that the base of the statue of Athena inside the Parthenon was a scene of Pandora. But what exactly did it look like? Maria Sellers will share her research into Pandora on the base of Athena and show her project to provide a clear visual description of the famous Pandora scene. Through her color restoration we will see what an Acropolis visitor might have seen 2,500 years ago!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Maria Sellers is a graduate student at George Washington University. She conducted her senior thesis at Vanderbilt University with Dr. Betsey A. Robinson and has presented her research and findings at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meetings.

The World’s Oldest Profession: Examining Prostitution in Pompeii’s Brothel
2022-09-20 17:00 (America/New_York) | Collins Cinema at Wellesley College, 106 Central St, Wellesley Hills, MA, 02481

New Approaches to the Archaeology of Disease: Climate, Imperialism and Malaria in the Indian Ocean
2022-09-20 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Webinar, Webinar, London, UK, London, Sonoma County, 5201, United Kingdom
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Hour series.

New Approaches to the Archaeology of Disease — Climate, Imperialism, & Malaria in the Indian Ocean
2022-09-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Whitman College, Olin Hall 129, 920 E Isaacs, Walla Walla, WA, 99362, United States
Lecturer: Krish Seetah (Stanford University)
Come join us for a watch party of Professor Seetah’s live-streamed lecture. There will be a drawing for a surprise gift and discussion of the lecture afterwards.

The People of Angkor
2022-09-21 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Eliot Hall Chapel, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202
Matson Lecture

New Approaches to the Archaeology of Disease: Climate, Imperialism, and Malaria in the Indian Ocean
2022-09-21 19:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar, Webinar, London, UK, London, Sonoma County, 5201, United Kingdom

Ancient Cypriote Sculpture in New York: Cesnola, the Metropolitan Museum and 19th Century Spectacle
2022-09-22 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Phoenix) | California
Dr. Ann-Marie Knoblauch
Associate Professor, Art History
Virginia Tech
In the 1870s, two massive shipments of ancient Cypriote art arrived in New York, forming the foundational collection for the city’s new universal museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection had been acquired from Luigi Palma di Cesnola, the notorious antiquities collector working on Cyprus. The material led to public controversy fairly quickly. While most welcomed with enthusiasm the large collection of original ancient Mediterranean objects, New Yorkers familiar with the Greco-Roman past had a hard time making sense of the Cypriote material and its perceived “otherness.” Furthermore, a scandal (and eventual public trial) about alleged improper restorations to some of the Cypriote sculpture by Cesnola (by now the director of the Met) raised questions about archaeological ethics and authenticity.
In this presentation Dr. Knoblauch explores the public reception of (and reaction to) the ancient Cypriote material in 1880s New York. Unintentionally, Cesnola caused a spectacle for the newly-opened museum, and cynical New Yorkers–familiar with the antics of P.T. Barnum when it came to creating spectacles—enjoyed poking fun at the large and bewildering Cypriot collection and the arrogant Cesnola.
For questions about the event or registration, please email the program coordinator, Casey Gipson, at casey.gipson@asu.edu.

The Archaeology of Dreams and What It Tells Us about Climate Change
2022-09-24 13:00 (America/Chicago) | California
ZOOM Lecture: “The Archaeology of Dreams and What It Tells Us About Climate Change” by Dr. David S. Whitley, Adjunct Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University. Zoom room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please…
More Zoom events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

Mes Aynak and the Continued Threat to Archaeology and Archaeologists
2022-09-24 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | California
September Denver Society Lecture: Saturday September 24, 2022 @ 1:00 PM, Online Webinar
Mes Aynak and the Continued Threat to Archaeology and Archaeologists
Presented by Erik DeMarche, MA, International Archaeology Consultant & President of the Denver Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Abstract: The archaeology site of Mes Aynak consists of a one-thousand-year-old Buddhist copper mining city likely on top of a bronze age and older settlements and the second largest copper deposit in the world in the heart of a pro-Taliban province. After a Chinese state-owned mining company acquired the mineral rights to the copper, an international rescue excavation began. These efforts were hindered by mix of government corruption and the Taliban harassment. One year after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Mes Aynak remains in danger as do many of the Afghan archaeologists who worked there. This lecture will cover a brief history of Mes Aynak, a history of the archaeology work done here, and the contemporary and ongoing surrounding controversies.
Biography: Erik DeMarche is an international archaeology consultant specializing in archaeology in areas of conflict and is the current president of the Denver Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Life at Berkou: a newly-discovered Roman fortress in Egypt
2022-09-26 16:30 (America/New_York) | Department of Art & Archaeology seminar room (Green Hall 3-S-15), Washington Rd., Princeton, NJ, 08540, United States
Ettinghausen Lecture

Community Archaeology as Sustainable Archaeology
2022-09-26 19:30 (America/New_York) | Belk Visual Arts Center 117, Davidson College, 405 N Main St, Davidson, NC, 28036, United States

Operation Demeter: What Italy's largest antiques bust reveals about archaeological looting today
2022-09-27 17:30 (America/New_York) | UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 601, 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, United States

Healing the Body: How Scientific Archaeology is Revealing the Medicinal Practices of Enslaved Peoples
2022-09-29 14:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar, Webinar, London, UK, London, Sonoma County, 5201, United Kingdom
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.

Ancestral Maya Pilgrimage at the Sacred Pools of Cara Blanca, Belize
2022-09-29 19:30 (America/Chicago) | WEBINAR (Rockford), Rockford, IL
Joukowsky Lecture
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Hannibal’s Secret Weapon
2022-10-02 15:00 (America/New_York) | Brock University STH 215, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada
Norton Lecture
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The “Mummy Portraits” of Roman Egypt: Status, Ethnicity, and Magic
2022-10-06 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Lorelei H. Corcoran, Professor of Art History; Director, Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology University of Memphis
In ancient Egypt, one of the final steps in the mummification process was to equip the body with a permanent face covering that helped to protect the head and also to ritually transform the deceased into a god. The earliest examples of these were stylized masks, later replaced by more realistic-looking, painted portraits. Using evidence from the archaeological record and
the Book of the Dead—a series of spells meant to guide the dead as they sought eternal life— Lorelei Corcoran will discuss the production and function of the “mummy portraits” that were popular throughout Egypt in the Roman period and what these images reveal about the religious beliefs and multi-layered ethnicities of their subjects.
Free parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums
Related exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums: Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt open through December 31, 2022
Image courtesy Harvard Art Museums: 1939.111

Old Pots and New Drains: Changing Approaches to Waste and Wastewater in a Pompeian Neighborhood
2022-10-06 18:30 (America/New_York) | Dickinson College, Denny Hall #317, 272 W High St, Carlisle, PA, 17013, United States

Plumbing the Depths: Exploring Violence and Warfare in Humanity’s Past
2022-10-06 18:30 (America/New_York) | University of Akron, Leigh Hall 207, 150 East Exchange Street, Akron, OH, 44325, United States
Joukowsky Lecture
To register to attend via Zoom, email edumser@uakron.edu for the Zoom link.

Plumbing the Depths: Exploring Violence and Warfare in Humanity’s Past
2022-10-08 10:30 (America/New_York) | University of Dayton, Science Center Auditorium, 300 College Park Ave, Dayton, OH, 45469

5,000 year old Egyptain Brewery
2022-10-09 11:30 (America/New_York) | California
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA.
Dr. Matthew Adams of the N.Y.U Institute of Fine Arts will present on the discovery of a 5,000 year old Egyptian Brewery. The brewery was discovered in North Abydos and is believed to be the oldest brewery in the world.
