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April 29, 2023: Toys, Burial Goods or Ritual Objects? – West African figurines and their archaeological traces presented by André Luiz Ruivo Ferreira Burmann, PhD candidate Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Pre- and Protohistory of Africa, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Abstract: West African figurines are a notable part of the world heritage. Both legally and illegally, they were (and continue to be) collected and exhibited in museums and collections all over the world. Studies of these impressive 3D representations of humans, animals, and hybrid beings have focused mainly on formal, iconographic and stylistic aspects of […]

Great Lecture: Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses […]

Gallery Talk—A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

Harvard Art Museums Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join museum staff members for a closer look at ancient objects in the exhibition A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection, as well as insights into the exhibition process. On view through May 7, 2023, A World Within Reach examines issues of power, desire, and wonder in antiquity and today […]

Discoveries in the Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt

ZOOM lecture: "Discoveries in the Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt" by Dr. Kate Liszka (California Sate University, San Bernardino). 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.

Weary Herakles, Hellenistic, Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), c. 50–25 BCE. Terracotta. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich, SL 257, TL42482.39.

A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection

Harvard Art Museums Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, United States

A World Within Reach invites visitors to explore the experiences and imaginations of people who lived in the Mediterranean basin some 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. Clay and bronze depictions of ordinary people (with a few gods and heroes as well), small-scale animal sculptures, and stunning jewelry are all arranged under three themes—power, desire, and […]

New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal

ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California, Berkeley, CA, 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. Geoff Emberling, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Univ. of Michigan: "New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal" Sunday, May 7, 2023, 3 PM Pacific […]

ARCE-PA Lecture by Dr. Jessica Tomkins, Wofford College

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

ARCE-PA Lecture Sunday, May 7 at 3:30pm Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Jessica Tomkins, Assistant Professor of History, Wofford College Lecture Topic: Rethinking Old Kingdom Kingship Abstract: Following Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs, our understanding of Egyptian society advanced at lightning speed with every new text published. However, this rapid pace of scholarship also caused certain […]

Antiquities of the Southern Mediterranean: Malta, Tunisia, Sicily, Calabria

Join our engaging AIA lecturer and host Lisa C. Pieraccini for this luxurious small-ship voyage circumnavigating Sicily that includes Tunisia, beginning and ending in Malta. Sicily offers a unique cultural experience in which Greek, Roman, Arab, Norman, Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Muslim influences intermingle-a true crossroads of civilizations. Amidst spring wildflowers and citrus groves discover […]

Colloquia Anatolica et Aegaea Congressus internationales Smyrnenses XIII STUDIA BITHYNICA. An e-conference on the archaeology and history of Bithynia in north-western Anatolia

We are glad to inform you that an international symposium on the region Bithynia in north-western Turkey will take place on May 11-12, 2023 on Zoom. Bithynia was an ancient region and Roman province located on the south-eastern edge of the Marmara Sea in the north-western part of present-day Turkey. It was bordered by Mysia, […]

Stanford AIA Raubitschek Lecture with Ian Morris

"What Happened in History: 81 Years on from Gordon Childe" This lecture borrows the title from Gordon Childe's famous book and asks how his theory of the overall shape of prehistory and ancient history looks today.

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