Events
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Egypt and Sudan: From Prehistory to the Present. An international conference supporting The World Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa exhibition on view at The Fralin Museum of Art
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 […]
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Recreating Urban Biographies in Roman Italy: Recent Research at Gabii
historic Longview Farm House located at 13525 Clayton Road in Town and Counry, MO. 13525 Clayton Road, St. Louis, MO, United StatesDr. 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.
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Spectacles of Cultural Heritage Destruction in Global Media
Virtual EventCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, 02138 Available during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 5, 2025–April 26, 2026. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: November 30, 2025–January 25, 2026, March 15, 2026 and March 22, 2026 This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: […]
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Mayan writing Workshop: Learning the Mayan Calendar
Speaker: Paul Caetano Further details to come
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Highland, Lowland: Chlorite Landscapes of the Iranian Plateau in the Third Millennium BCE (Lecture by Breton Langendorfer)
In 2001, flooding near the city of Jiroft in southeastern Iran exposed a vast Bronze Age cemetery. Large quantities of vessels made from a dark soft stone known as chlorite or steatite began to appear on antiquities markets, the majority of which were successfully repatriated by Iranian authorities. These events spurred new archaeological exploration in […]
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“Across Jordan in the Footsteps of Alois Musil: Archaeology and Discovery” with Sylva Pavlasová
Virtual EventJoin a fascinating online lecture about Alois Musil with Sylva Pavlasová, head of the Mashrek unit of the Middle East Department at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who recently returned from Jordan, a nation rich with traces from Neolithic, Nabataean, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic times to the establishment of the modern Hashemite […]
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Decorating for Death
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Archaeology-Hour Screening: Metropolitan Walls of the Ọyọ Empire
Please join us for an in-person screening and informal discussion of the Archaeology Hour talk by Akin Ogundiran (Northwestern University). Enclosures and perimeter walls, built of lateritic clay and stones, are the most visible monuments and evidence of public works in the archaeological landscape of the Ọyọ Empire (West Africa). What purposes did these walls […]
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TBA (Hawaii (Honolulu))
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Petra’s Forgotten Past: Uncovering the Iron Age Foundations of Nabataean Society 2
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship