Petra’s Forgotten Past
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA
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 Time TBA
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA
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 Petra tells powerful stories about life, […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
Dr. Marcello Mogetta (Chair of the Dept. of Classics, Archaeology & Religion at the University of Missouri - Columbia) will lecture on "Recreating Urban Biographies in Roman Italy: Recent Research at Gabii". A Roman themed reception will be held afterwards, but 21st century clothing is totally cool.
Speaker: Paul Caetano Further details to come