The Making of Myth & Marble: Bringing the Torlonia Sculptures to the U.S.
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States
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Life, Death, and Disease: Insights form Petra’s Tombs and Cemeteries 3
TBA (Western Massachusetts) Northampton, MA, United StatesKershaw Lectures in Near East Archaeology Time TBA
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New Approaches to Roman Urbanism: The Excavations of the Falerii Novi Project (Lazio, Italy) 2
TBA (Central Missouri) MO, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship Time TBA
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Life, Death, and Disease: Insights form Petra’s Tombs and Cemeteries
UMass Amherst, Herter Hall 301 161 Presidents Drive, Amherst, MA, United StatesHybrid EventDr. 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, […]
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Spectacles of Cultural Heritage Destruction in Global Media
TBA (Minneapolis) Minneapolis, MN, United StatesVirtual EventCharles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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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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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)
Princeton University Art Museum - Tuttle Lecture Hall (Room 134) 45 Elm Drive, Princeton, NJ, United StatesIn 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
TBA (Eugene) Eugene, ORTime TBA
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Archaeology-Hour Screening: Metropolitan Walls of the Ọyọ Empire
Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United StatesPlease 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 […]