Join us for discussion of innovative new approaches to the study of ancient coins! Dr. Melissa Ludke will discuss her numismatic work at early Roman Cosa and beyond. Dr. Ludke serves as Numismatic Specialist at the the Cosa (Terme) Excavations. She has published several papers on numismatics and is working on a book about Cosa […]
(Lecturers: Dr. Maxine McBrinn and Dr. Judith Habicht Mauche) Linda Cordell was extraordinarily active in southwestern archaeology during her resources in the work of others. Because of this, her influence extended well beyond her own students to those of many of her colleagues. One of her last personal endeavors was working with the Tijeras Pueblo […]
On Thursday, February 19th, Professor Jean-Michel Roessli (Department of Theological Studies, Concordia University) will deliver a presentation entitled, Orpheus in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Texts and Images. The talk will take place at 600pm in Hall Building 411 (SGW).
The KY Society of the AIA and the University of Louisville Department of Anthropology present a free public lecture by Dr. Oren Siegel (University of Toronto). During the height of the Cold War, the United States flew a series of reconnaissance missions using U-2 spy planes over Egypt. Film negatives from two flights that cover […]
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 […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Time TBA
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
