In-Person Lecture Saturday, April 13 at 1:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speakers: Dr. Aidan Dodson & Dr. Salima Ikram Lecture Topics & Abstracts: The Serapeum at Saqqara This afternoon we will explore the history of the catacombs of the sacred Apis bull at Saqqara. We will trace its story from the first known […]
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. […]
April 13, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Uses, Re-uses, and Abuses of Egyptian Statues Gunn Theater | Legion of Honor + Live Stream Presented by Tom Hardwick Consulting Curator of Egyptology, Houston Museum of Natural Science Admission: Lecture is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid program. IN PERSON: […]
Many of the most magnificent and best-preserved ancient Greek and Roman sites are found along Türkiye’s beautiful Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Visit world-famous, plus little-visited yet spectacular, Greco-Roman sites, Byzantine churches, Crusader castles, and Ottoman palaces. Your engaging AIA lecturer/host, Yaşar Ersoy, teaches classical art and archaeology and has been doing fieldwork in Türkiye since […]
Sundays at 11:00 am October 1, 2023–April 21, 2024. See blackout dates.* Regular museum admission rates apply. Free museum admission for Massachusetts residents every Sunday morning (year-round) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Proof of residency required. Free museum admission is not available to commercial groups. *Blackout dates: November 24–26, 2023; December 4, 2023–January 21, […]
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. […]
This talk will share the latest research on underwater excavations of an ancient (1st century BCE) cargo-ship, which was carrying architectural marble when it sank off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kizilburun. We will go behind-the-scenes to look at how the cargo's intended destination was identified. Please join us for this livestream presentation.
Metcalf lecture For registration, please email Phil Stinson of the University of Kansas (pstinson@ku.edu), or Jeff Rydberg-Cox of the Univ. of Missouri Kansas City (rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu).
Join the AIA for a fascinating evening as Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M) presents Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros. This presentation will be given at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central/6pm Mountain/5pm Pacific. Between 2005 and 2011, researchers from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University excavated and raised […]
Discover a collection of magnificent but largely unheralded examples of Ice Age art while in the company of acclaimed paleoanthropologist and popular trip leader Ian Tattersall. Admire unusual, elegant bas-relief animal images in Basque caves, a profusion of hand prints at Gargas, and the famous panels of line-drawn and subtly shaded bison, horse, and ibex […]
Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture For Zoom attendance, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/2xcu7ntk Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste (UMass Amherst) will present a hybrid lecture on the topic “'We Are Shaped by Space': Some Archaeological Perspectives of the Materiality of Black Life."
