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Members Night at the Museum (Hybrid Event)

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture members are invited to a fun, informative, rotating tour of our newest exhibitions. Curators, exhibitions staff, and educators will discuss the making of Mediterranean Marketplaces in the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Muchos Méxicos in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and From the Hands of […]

Ritual at the Crossroads: A Sacred Stone in Ancient Athens

Susan Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Washington University, St. Louis (srotroff@wustl.edu) A large, irregular boulder fenced off by a parapet of stone slabs lies at a crossroads on the north side of the Agora (the public square) of ancient Athens. When excavated, in the 1970s, I, t was covered with hundreds […]

Ancient Graffiti and Ancient Voices: Culture and Communication Across Pompeii and Herculaneum

Public Lecture by Rebecca Benefiel, Professor of Classics, Washington and Lee University. Rebecca Benefiel is a Professor of Classics who specializes in Latin literature and Roman archaeology. Her research interests focus on the social and cultural history of the Roman Empire and Latin epigraphy. She is a supervisor for the Epigraphic Database Roma, part of […]

Adventures with Animal Mummies

University of Hawaii, Art Auditorium 2500 Campus Rd, Honolulu

Masks and vaccination required for in-person attendance.

Daily Lives in an Age of Empire: Local Economics Life at Cadir Hoyuk (Turkey) during the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE)

Hofstra University, Breslin Hall 1000 Hempstead Turnpike (Hofstra University 105), Hempstead, NY, United States

Dr. Sarah Adcock, Assistant Professor at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will speak about how research on the Late Bronze Age has often focused on elite lives and history, but the daily lives of non- elite have remained unexamined. How were local practices of day-to-day life shaped by imperial […]

Minoan Crete & the Cycladic Isles

Step back in time to explore the island of Crete, center of the Minoan civilization during the Bronze Age, as well as the nearby Cycladic Islands of Santorini, Mykonos, and Delos. Marvel at the physical evidence of this first advanced civilization in Europe, which created palace complexes, stunning works of art, a unique writing system […]

ARCE-NC Lecture May 1 by Aidan Dodson: The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs

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. Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol: The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs Sunday, May 1, 2022, 2 PM Pacific Time (note the earlier time) Zoom Lecture. A registration […]