Events

Lecture by Jenny L. Davis, UIUC Department of Anthropology

The Lives of Ancient Maya Commoners: How Could We Have Been So Wrong? Dr. Payson Sheets (University of Colorado Boulder) Ancient Maya elites have been the focus of research for well over a century, and for good reasons. They developed the New World’s most sophisticated writing system. Their architecture, sculpture, murals, and other items constitute […]

Dr. David Saunders, Getty Museum Over the last decade, the Antiquities department of the J. Paul Getty Museum has developed a fruitful and enduring partnership with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.  In addition to generous loans for special exhibitions, we have undertaken a series of collaborative conservation projects that have returned individual objects to […]