Spectacles of Cultural Heritage Destruction in Global Media
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Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
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Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHarvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, 02138 Available during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 5, 2025–April 26, 2026. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: November 30, 2025–January 25, 2026, March 15, 2026 and March 22, 2026 This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: […]
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Mayan writing Workshop: Learning the Mayan Calendar
Speaker: Paul Caetano Further details to come
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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 StatesIn 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 […]
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“Across Jordan in the Footsteps of Alois Musil: Archaeology and Discovery” with Sylva Pavlasová
Virtual EventJoin 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 […]
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Decorating for Death
TBA (Eugene) Eugene, ORTime TBA
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Archaeology-Hour Screening: Metropolitan Walls of the Ọyọ Empire
Whitman College Maxey Hall 207 173 Stanton St., Walla Walla, WA, United StatesPlease 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 (Hawaii (Honolulu))
TBA (Honolulu) Honolulu, HITime TBA
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Petra’s Forgotten Past: Uncovering the Iron Age Foundations of Nabataean Society 2
Johns Hopkins University, Homewood Campus, Shaffer Hall Room 3 Baltimore, United StatesMartha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship
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Matrilineal Kinship In Aegean Prehistory: Settlements, Figurines, And The Absence Of Men
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Baptism in Early Christianity and Baptismal Inscriptions in Asia Minor
Orthodox Academy of Crete Kolymvari, GreeceWater 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 […]
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Celtic Art Across the Ages – Opening
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDiscover the many forms of Celtic creativity and their artistic legacies in this sweeping story that spans ancient to modern times. When you think of the word “Celtic,” what do you picture? Perhaps intricate knotwork designs, legendary warriors, or mystical spirituality? Maybe even a certain NBA team? Celtic Art Across the Ages will introduce visitors […]