Public Lecture by Professor Wayne T. Pitard Abstract: Essentially all of the alphabetic scripts in the world descend from a single script invented probably during the 20th century BCE by a Canaanite in the southern Levant. This lecture will provide a tour of the extraordinary development of the alphabet from its beginnings to its eventual […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Time TBA
Dr. Britt Hartenberger will discuss geoarchaeological approaches to life at the northern Greek city of Olynthos. Her research has included archaeological excavation and lithics and ceramics analysis at urban sites in Cyprus, Greece, Syria and Turkey. Her specialty is craft production and household organization in the Bronze and Iron Ages, as attested by numerous published […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Join the AIA for a virtual trip to West Africa as Akin Ogundiran delivers the February AIA Archaeology Hour talk "Metropolitan Walls of the Ọyọ Empire." This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Register here!
Hybrid Lecture Monumental Ritual Texts in Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Wednesday, February 25, 6:00–7:00 pm ET, Advance registration recommended for online and in-person attendance Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Speaker: Christelle Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Brown University The earliest large-scale records of ancient Egyptian religious literature come from Saqqara, an important royal […]
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
The event brings together a distinguished group of Egyptologists and Nubiologists to explore the historical, archaeological, and cultural trajectories of the Nile Valley through an interdisciplinary lens. The conference is part of the programming for the ongoing exhibition The World Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa at The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia […]
