About the lecture: In 2023, excavators in Pompeii found a bakery in the Casa di Rustio Vero that was separated from the house—and the rest of the world—by metal bars. The excavators interpreted the bars as an indication of incarceration and the use of convicts as labor. This lecture explores the evidence for convict labor […]
Join us for a lecture by Professor John McCloy, Washington State University, who will present results of an investigation into the materials science and processing parameters to fabricate Egyptian blue faience. Recently, our group at Washington State University, with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, recreated Egyptian blue to […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
Saturday, February 21 3:30 pm EST Virtual on ZOOM FREE lecture; RSVP required for Zoom link Speaker: Dr. Henning Franzmeier, Senior Research Associate, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia Title: Piramesse - from the City of Wonders to Terra Incognita Abstract: Where today just a typical Egyptian village is located, surrounded by fertile, green fields, 3300 years […]
Join us for a tour of the ancient Mediterranean galleries of the newly re-opened and highly anticipated Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM). The Museum’s collection of ancient Mediterranean and Byzantine art numbers more than 7,000 objects that were made and used throughout the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Italy, and the Roman and Byzantine Empires. […]
Marketing the Etruscans—From Mystery to Modern Media Join us as the AIA Societies Committee presents a virtual presentation and Q&A with Jessica Tilley. This presentation will also be available in American Sign Language. Often deemed the ‘mysterious’ Etruscans, this pre-Roman civilization of early Italy has fought a hard-won battle in finding its place in the […]
Public Lecture by Professor Wayne T. Pitard Abstract: Essentially all of the alphabetic scripts in the world descend from a single script invented probably during the 20th century BCE by a Canaanite in the southern Levant. This lecture will provide a tour of the extraordinary development of the alphabet from its beginnings to its eventual […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Time TBA
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 […]
