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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 States

    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 […]

  • “Across Jordan in the Footsteps of Alois Musil: Archaeology and Discovery” with Sylva Pavlasová

    Virtual Event

    Join 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 […]

  • Archaeology-Hour Screening: Metropolitan Walls of the Ọyọ Empire

    Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United States

    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 (New Orleans 1) New Orleans, LA, United States

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  • Baptism in Early Christianity and Baptismal Inscriptions in Asia Minor

    Orthodox Academy of Crete Kolymvari, Greece

    Water has been the central element of Christian baptism since the very beginnings of Christianity. Baptism has been part of Christianity from the start, as shown by the many mentions in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles. Baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, has always been the primary initiation ritual […]

  • Re-Encountering Egypt: Museums and the Human Experience in the Age of AI

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

    Saturday, March 7 3:30 pm EST In-person only at the Penn Museum, Classroom L2 No registration required Special Event: Annual Korsyn Lecture in honor of Felix J. Korsyn Speaker: Prof. Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley Title: Re-Encountering Egypt: […]

  • Climate Change and Resilience in Medieval Anatolia

    Business Building 2-09 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    AIA’s George H. Forsyth, Jr. Memorial Lecture (Link: https://www.archaeological.org/endowment/george-h-forsyth-jr-memorial-lectures/) Dr. Marica Cassis, Department of History, University of Calgary What does climate resilience mean in the context of the Late Roman and Medieval World of Anatolia? Current excavations at the site of Çadır Höyük in Yozgat province, central Türkiye provide insight into how communities adapted and […]

  • Prof. Debby Sneed, Assistant Professor of Classics, California State University, Long Beach, “Disability and the Greek Ideal: A Case Study in Marble”

    College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, Room 401 (an accessible space) 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    The study of Greek art is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude aspects of bodily difference and disability. In this talk, I consider a collection of 6th century BCE sculptures of maidens (korai) that were found on the Athenian Acropolis. As traditionally […]

  • Escape from Pompeii: Tracing survivors from the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius

    Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University 801 S. Patterson Ave, Oxford, Ohio

    Escape from Pompeii: Tracing survivors from the 79 CE eruption of Vesuvius Dr. Steven Tuck, Archaeologist and Professor in the History Department at Miami University Dr. Tuck will change the story of Pompeii from one of death and destruction to one of survival and hope. Through his research, he has traced those Romans who escaped […]