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  • Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students

    Peabody Museum Tours Led by Harvard Students

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 2:00 pm October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply. *Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, 2024; and March 9–17, 2024. Tours by Harvard students connect visitors with the research, teaching, and Indigenous engagement surrounding the cultural heritage in the museum’s care. […]

  • Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Virtual Film Festival

    The Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival is an annual juried competition, part of the Archaeology Month Celebrations taking place in the United States. It is also an educational event, showcasing the discovery of past cultures gained from ethnological or archaeological research, illustrated by documentary films. These films are of great artistic and scientific […]

  • Peru: Ancient Cultures of the Coast & Andes

    Join AIA Lectuer and Host Dr. Gabriela Cervantes-Quequezana who is a Peruvian anthropological archaeologist. She has done extensive field research through survey and excavations in several regions of Peru, including the north, south, coast, and highlands. Gabriela is the director of the Chira Archaeological Project, which investigates local north coast societies like Tallán and the […]

  • San Francisco’s “Titanic”: The Loss of SS City of Rio de Janeiro

    San Francisco Maritime Museum 900 Beach St, San Francisco, CA, United States

    The 1901 shipwreck of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s SS City of Rio de Janeiro was the deadliest ever at the Golden Gate. Maritime archaeologist and historian James Delgado will share the story of the Rio, including its rumored “treasure” that never existed, and the discovery and rediscovery of the mud-shrouded hulk hundreds of feet […]

  • The Living Dead in Ancient Egypt

    Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    “Oh Unas, you have not gone away dead, but alive.” The Pyramid Text quoted here tells us that the ancient Egyptians believed in the continued influence of the dead in the lives of the living. The dead in ancient Egypt were supernatural intermediaries, folk heroes, and some were even deified, worshiped as gods in the […]

  • The splendor and misery of the inhabitants of Písek in Bohemia in the early modern era

    Prácheňské muzeum v Písku Velké nám. 114, Písek, Bohemia, Czechia

    Lecture in Prachenske Museum in Písek, Bohemia. Royal town of Písek was founded in 13th century AD on the commercial crossroads. Archaeological findings from the last decades also shed new light on the lifestyle of the inhabitants of the town of Písek in the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries. The Renaissance, […]

  • Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival

    Florence County Museum 111 West Cheves Street, Florence, United States

    The Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival is an annual juried competition, part of the Archaeology Month Celebrations taking place in the United States. It is also an educational event, showcasing the discovery of past cultures gained from ethnological or archaeological research, illustrated by documentary films. These films are of great artistic and scientific […]

  • The Enduring Lifestyle of the Ancestral Maya

    Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building, University of Illinois 707 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL, United States

    Borowski lecture Ancient tropical societies dealt with the same issues we face today—climate instability, growing populations, overuse of resources, and so on. One of the major issues at present is growing concern about providing adequate supplies of clean drinking water. We can learn from past tropical societies, including the ancestral Maya of Central America, whose […]