Murder, Poetry, and Scribes in Ancient Egypt
2025-03-26 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Free Public Lecture – Online & In Person
Margaret Geoga, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, The University of Chicago
“The Teaching of Amenemhat” is the only ancient Egyptian literary work to describe the assassination of a king. Told from the perspective of the murdered Pharaoh Amenemhat I, the poem is remarkable for its grim subject matter and popularity in ancient Egypt and Nubia. While previous scholarship on “Amenemhat” has focused on the poem’s composition, Geoga’s lecture will focus on its enduring legacy after 1,000 years in circulation. Margaret Geoga will explore who read “The Teaching of Amenemhat,” how they understood it, and how ancient interpretations differ from those of modern Egyptologists.
Advance registration recommended for in-person and online attendance. Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Margaret Geoga is assistant professor of Egyptology at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Chicago. Her research focuses on ancient Egyptian literature, scribal culture, textual transmission, and reception in both ancient Egypt and later periods. Her other research interests include ancient Egyptian intellectual history, translation, literary theory, and the history of Egyptology. Her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. She is also a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (2023–25). Geoga holds a PhD in Egyptology from Brown University, where she also completed a concurrent MA in Comparative Literature. Prior to The University of Chicago, she was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the Wolf Humanities Center of the University of Pennsylvania. She also taught at Brown University and Providence College. Her current book project focuses on “The Teaching of Amenemhat,” an enigmatic Middle Egyptian poem depicting the murder of a pharaoh. Combining textual criticism, material philology, and reception theory, the monograph investigates how this unusual and highly popular text was passed down, edited, and reinterpreted over the course of approximately 1,000 years by its many ancient readers in both Egypt and Nubia.

Eldorado on the Nile: The Art of Luxury in Ptolemaic Alexandria
2025-03-26 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Charles Elliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
In collaboration with the University of Maryland, College Park Departments of Classics and Art History Archaeology

The Impact of Roman Military Presence on the Arid Landscapes of Southern Jordan and Israel
2025-03-27 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | WA
The Frederick R. and Margaret B. Matson Lectureship for Near Eastern Archaeology and Archaeological Technology

ArtsThursdays: Ancient Game Night
2025-03-27 17:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Join us for a free night of friendly competition at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.
Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries.
Explore the galleries of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Learn to play the ancient board games Royal Game of Ur, Senet, and al-qirkat
Bring ancient relief sculptures to life with the augmented-reality app: Art of Intimidation: Journey to Ancient Assyria
Create a clay medallion inscribed with your own personalized cuneiform symbol
Enjoy beverages available for purchase (a valid government ID required to consume alcohol)
Enter a free raffle to win museum gifts and membership
Free and open to the public. Let us know you are coming! RSVPs are encouraged, but walk-in visitors are always welcome. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.

Archaeology of the Ọyọ Empire (West Africa): Chivalry, Colonies, and Household Politics in the Early Modern Period
2025-03-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Florida State University, Carraway 315, Carraway Bldg, Tallahassee, FL, 32304
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships

Dying as a Macedonian in Egypt: Styling Social Identity through Hellenistic Burial Practices
2025-03-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | University of Virginia, Campbell Hall 158 (Architecture School), Bayly Dr, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, United States
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship

Argilos After Philip II: Fortifying Lands, Cultivating Wealth
2025-03-27 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Concordia University, SGW, LB-322, Montreal, Canada
Following its conquest by Philip II of Macedon in 357 BCE, the city of Argilos was abandoned, and its land redistributed to a Macedonian general. Responsible for overseeing his territory within the expanding Macedonian realm, he also capitalized on the region’s olive oil production, as evidenced by the remains found on the Acropolis of Argilos. This talk will explore the dual role of Argilos in the post-conquest period, highlighting its strategic significance and economic exploitation under Macedonian rule. By Laure-Sarah Ethier (Université de Montréal )

Using AI and Remote Sensing to Fight Looting and the Archaeo-Mafie
2025-03-27 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Rome) | John Cabot University – Aula Magna Regina, Via della Lungara 233, Roma, Roma, 00165, Italy
Looting of historical sites and monuments still happens in Italy, every day. There is only one reason for this criminal activity: money. And with illegal revenues comes organized crime. Indeed Italian Mafias are involved in trafficking illicit antiquities and supporting professional looters who can now use tools like drones for rapid site identification and theft.
To counter these threats, the Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT) of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (ITT) has pioneered the use of Artificial Intelligence. Their tools can now sift through vast amounts of satellite imagery to pinpoint illegal excavations and analyze online communications to reconstruct major trafficking groups and their criminal networks.
In this talk, CCHT Director Dr. Arianna Traviglia will detail how these tools can be used to detect and prevent looting and to provide intelligence against illicit trafficking of cultural goods.

The deep prehistory of the human presence in the world’s high mountains and plateaus
2025-03-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave, Rochester, NY, 14607

Amelia Edwards’ United States Lecture Tour and the Beginnings of American Egyptology
2025-03-29 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Penn Museum, 3230 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
ANNUAL KORSYN LECTURE
In-Person Lecture
Saturday, March 29 at 3:30 pm EST
Penn Museum, Classroom L2
Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Sheppard
Lecture Topic: Amelia Edwards’ United States Lecture Tour and the Beginnings of American Egyptology
Abstract:
On a cold November evening in 1889, Amelia Edwards took the stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York. The lecture she gave to 2,400 people that night, entitled “The buried cities of Ancient Egypt,” was a success. Over the next four months, Edwards gave over 100 lectures all over the northeastern US, and as far West as Chicago and Minneapolis, exciting interest in Egypt everywhere she went. Alongside her every step of the way was her secretary, assistant, hair and makeup artist, and friend, Kate Bradbury.
Often we talk about Egyptology in the US beginning in Chicago with the Cairo exhibit on the Midway at the World Columbian Exhibition in 1892. Or we say interest in Egypt began when the University of Chicago was founded, with a department and a museum dedicated to the subject, in 1895. Others place importance in the earlier collections, like the Abbott Collection in New York as early as the 1860s. However, using Bradbury’s letters home during the tour, newspaper reports, Edwards’ lectures, and other contemporaneous materials, I argue that it wasn’t wealthy men who started building Egyptological institutions in the US. Instead, the catalyst for widespread public interest in Egyptology in the United States was the initial encounters with ancient Egypt made possible by a women-led lecture tour in the winter of 1889-90.
Obviously these women did not travel a thousand miles on the Hudson River, but they easily traversed that distance in the time they were in the US, speaking to and meeting with influential people across the country. This presentation will outline the journey of Amelia Edwards and Kate Bradbury and the impact they had on the Egyptology in the US.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Kathleen Sheppard is a Professor in the History and Political Science department at Missouri S&T in Rolla, Missouri. She earned her MA in Egyptian Archaeology at University College London in 2002, and her PhD in History of Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2010. Her first book was a scientific biography of Margaret Alice Murray (2013) that focused on Murray’s life and career, both in and out of Egyptology. She has spent her whole career telling the stories of women in Egyptology. Her most recent book, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (St. Martins Press, 2024) is a grand retelling of the history of Egyptology through the work that women did.
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Lectures are FREE to ARCE Members, $7 for University of Pennsylvania Museum Members and UPenn Staff and Faculty, $5 for Students with ID, and $10 for the general public.
Light refreshments served starting at 3pm.
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The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge among the general public, and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties. The ARCE Pennsylvania Chapter (ARCE-PA) is the local branch of the national institution. We host monthly events including scholarly lectures, Egyptian-themed workshops, social events, and guided tours of the Penn Museum’s Egyptian galleries. For more information or to learn about the perks of membership, please send an e-mail to info@arce-pa.org, or visit our website at www.arce-pa.org.

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students
2025-03-30 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
Available during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.*
*Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025.
This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around the ancient Mediterranean transformed the lives and livelihoods of people at all levels of society. Touch replicas and smell “ancient” scents as the students bring the past alive.
Visitors may drop in at the scheduled times. No reservation is required. Tours meet in the lobby and last approximately 45 minutes.
Tours for groups of ten or more may be scheduled at other times. Tours may be available by advance request in these languages: Hindi, Bengali, and Mandarin.

Things you probably didn't know about New Hampshire Archaeology
2025-04-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Deerfield Community Church, 15 Church St, Deerfield, NH, 03037, United States
Tuesday April 1, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – in person
Things you probably didn’t know about New Hampshire Archaeology- Dr. Richard Boisvert, retired NH State Archaeologist
New Hampshire may not have archaeological monuments like cliff dwellings or burial mounds but it does have a remarkable number of important and unusual archaeological sites and artifacts.
Dr. Boisvert will take us on a virtual tour of the state’s unusual and notable archaeological past.
Co-hosted by Philbrick James Library, Deerfield Heritage Commission, and Deerfield Historical Society.
Location: Deerfield Community Church, 15 Church St, Deerfield, NH

New Light on King Herod's Harbor
2025-04-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Nashville Parthenon, 2500 West End Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Anna Marguerite McCann and Robert D. Taggart Lectureship in Underwater Archaeology

Hybrid lecture: Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life
2025-04-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
2025 Gordon R. Willey Lecture
David M. Carballo, Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies, Boston University
Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities in the world over 1,500 years ago, stands today as a premier archaeological site and a powerful symbol of Mexico’s precolonial heritage. Despite its enduring fame and millions of annual visitors, much remains misunderstood about the Teotihuacanos who built and inhabited this extraordinary city. This lecture delves into the intricate history of Teotihuacan, exploring its rise as a multiethnic metropolis and a center of innovation. David Carballo will examine the city’s immediate antecedents and urbanization, its unique architectural hallmark of apartment-style living, and the dynamic networks of migration and cultural exchange that shaped its identity. By connecting the iconic pyramids to the daily lives of the city’s inhabitants, this talk offers a deeper understanding of one of the ancient world’s most fascinating urban centers.
Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Advance registration recommended for in-person and online attendance
Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and Harvard Museums of Science & Culture in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
Photo: Jennifer Carballo

Global Research Conference on Analog Electronics Sensors and Signal Processing (GRCSENSORS)
2025-04-03 - 2025-04-05 | Paris, France, Paris, France, Paris, France, paris, 62000, France
We would like to Invite you for our upcoming conference on
Global Research Conference on Analog Electronics Sensors and Signal Processing (GRCSENSORS) is going held at Paris, France during April 03-05, 2025

The Paracas Phenomenon in the Andes (First Millennium BCE): Social Materiality and the Perspective from the Chincha Valley, Peru
2025-04-03 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | WA
Thursday, April 3 (12pm-1:30 pm) Penn State is excited to host the Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Henry Tantaleán to talk about the Andean archaeological phenomenon of Paracas (First Millennium BCE) and his ongoing research on the Chincha Valley. Dr. Tantaleán is a Professor of Archaeology at the oldest university in the Americas, the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and is the former curator of that university’s archaeological museum, founded by the pioneering archaeologist Julio César Tello in the late 1910s. Dr. Tantaléan’s excavations and historical research advance our understanding of Peru’s early archaeological horizons, as well as their study in the late 19th and early 20th century by Tello (who made Paracas famous) and others. With support from Latin American Studies, the departments of History, Anthropology, CAMS, and Latin American Studies, and the Archaeological Institute of America, his talk next Thursday will be of interest to more general students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, of the history and art history of the Andes, and of 19th and 20th century post-colonial intellectual history in Latin America.
For further details, please write to Dr. Christopher Heaney at cuh282@psu.edu and Dr. José Capriles at juc555@psu.edu.

Making a Spectacle of Oneself: Reflections on Mirrors and Dress in Classical Antiquity
2025-04-03 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University, 801 S. Patterson Ave, Oxford, Ohio, 45056
A joint program sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America Dayton Society, the Miami University Department of History, and the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum at Miami University.
Although we often take them for granted, mirrors in antiquity were powerful tools for the construction of feminine identity. Building on the idea of the mirror as speculum, we will explore how the mirror reflected concepts of beauty, care of the body, economic status, marital status, and social role, throughout the female life-cycle. The ritual functions of mirrors connected women to the divine, and even determined their fate. We will also consider the post-classical “lives” of ancient mirrors, several of which can be found in museums throughout Ohio. This public lecture is in association with HST 210S “Roman Civilization and Roman Spectacle”
Mireille Lee is the Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage (FESCH), and Project Director for the Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance (MAPRA). A classical archaeologist by
training, she earned her AB from Occidental College, and her MA and PhD from Bryn Mawr. She has published widely on ancient Greek art, gender studies, and object biography. Her first monograph, Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Her current book project, on ancient Greek mirrors, is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Megan Kassabaum - On Elevated Ground: The Origins, Use, and Meaning of Early American Platform Mounds
2025-04-03 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus Krieger 205, Baltimore, MD, United States
Megan Kassabaum, University of Pennsylvania
On Elevated Ground: The Origins, Use, and Meaning of Early American Platform Mounds

Hands-on Greek Vases
2025-04-04 15:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome) | American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, Roma, 00153, Italy
“HANDS-ON GREEK VASES” with AAR curator Prof. Valentina Follo and professional potter Roberto Paolini.
The popularity of Greek pottery transcended the Greek world. These artifacts, beyond their aesthetic beauty and role in spreading Greek myths, underscore the advanced technical skills required for their creation, a process that remains poorly understood.
Today’s event offers participants a hands-on experience with original Greek vases, but also with their creation process, from wheel-forming to intricate decoration.
The event will be composed of two activities:
1) guests will be allowed to touch and handle a selection of ancient Greek vases from the Archeological Collection of the AAR while curator Prof. Follo will discuss the peculiarities of each of them (e.g. technique, dating, iconography);
2) guests will meet Roberto Paolini, a professional ceramist who, through his study and experimental research (e.g. with Arizona University), has recreated the ancient techniques using only materials and technologies available in antiquity, eschewing modern chemical varnishes. He employs animal hair brushes, personally sourced clay slip, and a high level of skill and dedication – the same elements used by ancient potters.
Paolini will explain how to reproduce a vase and demonstrate how to use slip to decorate in the black-figure and red-figure techniques. Also in this case, participants will be allowed to touch and feel the vase reproductions.
The event will be open to 40 participants who will need to register in advance due to the limited space at the American Academy in Rome. Please sign up using this form https://forms.gle/WHfXaWK27CEWJu878
This activity will be offered free of charge and is open to anyone.

New Hampshire Archeological Society Spring
2025-04-05 09:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | WA
New Hampshire Archeological Society Spring Meeting
Co-hosted by UNH Anthropology Club and the New Hampshire Archaeological Society.
9:00 am – Registration opens. Morning refreshments.
9:55 Welcome, Elizabeth Chilton, UNH President, Professor of Anthropology
10:00 to 10:45 The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier, Meghan Howey, Professor of Anthropology and in the Earth Systems Research Center and she is currently the Director of UNH’s Center for the Humanities.
11:00 to 11:45 Native American Sites and Landscapes in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, Bob Goodby, Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, the owner of Monadnock Archaeological Consulting, LLC
Lunch on your own
1:00 to 1:45 Student papers
Transitional Embodiment, Meredith Rafferty
A Historic Case of Tertiary Syphilis from Cypress Grove Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana, Connor Lincoln
Buried Stories of Durham, New Hampshire – the UNH President’s Residence and its Evolving Role in the Community, Chase Johnson
2:00 to 2:45 Applied Bioarchaeology at the Forensic Anthropology Identification and Recovery (F.A.I.R.) Lab, University of New Hampshire, Alex Garcia Putnam, Postdoctoral Diversity and Innovation Scholar, Co-Director, Forensic Anthropology Identification and Recovery (F.A.I.R.) Lab
2:45 to 3:15 Archeology Lab Tour
Registration opens at 9 am with sessions starting at 10 am. Registration: $10 at the door, Complimentary with Student ID. No pre registration required. Virtual Zoom registration bit.ly/NHASregister
LOCATION: Huddleston Hall, UNH, 73 Main St, Durham, NH 03824
PARKING: Lot B and other parking is free on weekends

The Past in the Past: Traditionalism in Archaic Crete
2025-04-06 08:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Rosa Junior College Campus, Petaluma, CA
The Barbara Tsakirgis Memorial Lecture
Time and venue TBA

Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard
2025-04-06 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Natural History, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, 02138, United States
Venture on archaeological expeditions around the world in this annual event for all ages. Talk with archaeologists who study ancient Egyptians, Incas, prehistoric peoples, and others. Try ancient cuneiform writing and use an app that animates detailed wall art in Assyrian palaces. Discover cave art made by Neanderthals and other early humans, and learn how mummies’ names reveal secrets of Egyptian “tomb recycling.” Discover these and other surprises during this popular event.
Regular museum admission rates apply. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.
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The Archaeology of Democracy: Recent Excavations in the Agora of Athens
2025-04-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall, 231 Richmond Way, Richmond, VA, 23173, United States
Lecture by Dr. John McKesson Camp, II (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor Emeritus of Classics, Randolph-Macon College; Director of Agora Excavations, Athens, 1994–2022; Winner of the AIA’s 2024 Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement). Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies, this lecture is the 14th Stuart L. Wheeler Gallery of the Ancient World Lecture and will be followed by open house reception at the Ancient World Gallery, Humanities Building 419, University of Richmond.

Aegean Sea Odyssey: Cruise the Greek Isles & Historic Türkiye
2025-04-07 - 2025-04-15 | WA
Join Archaeological Institute of America lecturer and host Joanne Murphy, a classical archaeologist and an engaging professor, on a captivating journey cruising the Aegean Sea among the cultural coastal gems of Greece and Türkiye. Set out from Athens’ port of Piraeus for the sacred, uninhabited island of Delos, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cruise into the iconic caldera of Santorini and visit the island’s haunting site of Akrotiri, which was buried yet preserved by a volcanic eruption around 1600 B.C. Wander through the medieval town of Rhodes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and perhaps take an optional excursion to the Acropolis at Lindos with its 4th-century B.C. temple; and then hop over to nearby Kuşadasi, Türkiye, for a visit to the vast Greco-Roman city of Ephesus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Our last port of call is Çanakkale, for an excursion to legendary Troy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, before we disembark in deeply historical Istanbul. Optional pre- and post- cruise extensions in Athens and Istanbul are available. Aboard ship a team of experts, including AIA lecturer/host Joanne Murphy, will share their knowledge through a series of enriching lectures and informal discussions. Our luxury vessel, Le Dumont-d’Urville, which has only 92 staterooms and suites, will be a floating sanctuary of sophistication and comfort, where you will indulge in gourmet dining, unwind in spacious staterooms, and savor panoramic views throughout the vessel.

Archive Archaeology: The Invisible Hands of Colonial-Era Excavations in the Middle East
2025-04-07 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Princeton University, East Pyne Building 010, East Pyne Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08544
The Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen Lecture

In search of Artemis-Tyche: the cult and sanctuary of Artemis in the Decapolis city of Gerasa
2025-04-08 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Doe Library, Room 308A, Campanile Way, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The AIA San Francisco Society is thrilled to welcome Dr. Rubina Raja (Aarhus University) back to Berkeley. Please join us to hear Dr. Raja speak about the archaeology and history of ancient Gerasa. This will be the final lecture of the AIA San Francisco Society’s 2024-2025 lecture series.
Abstract: The Antonine period Artemis sanctuary in the Decapolis city Gerasa is one of the largest sanctuaries in the Roman world. With its impressive architecture and central location in the city, which also was named Antioch on the Gold River, the sanctuary has received a lot of attention in scholarship for more than a century. What is less known, however, is the fact that the sanctuary had a forerunner, which has until now not been located. This presentation takes its point of departure in new research undertaken on the archaeology and history of Gerasa, which has been aimed at, among other things, reinvestigating the pre-Antonine Artemis cult in Gerasa.
Speaker: Dr. Rubina Raja, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Director of The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University, Denmark

Augustus’ war against Antony and Cleopatra as Seen through the Coins
2025-04-08 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | University of Akron, Folk Hall 165, 150 E. Exchange St, Akron, OH, 44304
William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics

Research and Excavations at Sardis
2025-04-08 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
In this year’s Sardis Biennial Lecture, Professor Nicholas Cahill of the University of Wisconsin–Madison will discuss recent excavations at Sardis in Türkiye. The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis has been sponsored by Harvard University and Cornell University since 1958 and is authorized by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Discoveries include monumental remains of the early Lydian palace and a new sector of well-preserved houses destroyed by Cyrus the Great in 547 BCE. Work continues on the largest Roman arch in the world and on late antique houses built atop a sanctuary to the emperor Claudius. A protective roof was built over the Lydian fortification, and a team of local women conserved the mosaics of the Synagogue—the largest in the ancient world.
Speaker: Nicholas D. Cahill, Field Director, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, and Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Free admission, but seating is limited and registration is encouraged. For more information and to register, please click on the Event Website link noted below.
This lecture will be recorded and made available for online viewing; check the Event Website link after the event for details on how to view.

Kush and the Roman World: Warrior Queens along the Nile
2025-04-08 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Reed College, Performing Arts Building 320, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR, 97202
