Can You Dig It? 2026
Join us for a FREE family program at the McClung Museum celebrating International Archaeology Day. Can You Dig it? invites you to learn about the past and present with professional […]
Join us for a FREE family program at the McClung Museum celebrating International Archaeology Day. Can You Dig it? invites you to learn about the past and present with professional […]
A roundup of short presentations by UT faculty, students, and affiliates involved in archaeology, art history, or material culture of the classical and ancient Mediterranean world, as well as colleagues […]
UWM students are invited to join Prof. Alice Futrell for an informal chat about the field(s) of archaeology, art history, and the ancient world, discuss graduate school and post-grad school […]
From the 5th through the 8th centuries, the Nebo region became the home of numerous religious and secular communities. The region was dotted with both ascetic and communal monasteries that […]
Hand-drawn, painstakingly measured illustrations of excavated artifacts are key tools in archaeological research. Celebrate International Archaeology Day by joining Cathy Alexander, archaeological illustrator for Harvard’s Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in […]
Hand-drawn, painstakingly measured illustrations of excavated artifacts are key tools in archaeological research. Celebrate International Archaeology Day by joining Cathy Alexander, archaeological illustrator for Harvard’s Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in […]
Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
A lecture in celebration of International Archaeology Day by Alison Futrell, Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Futrell's research is guided by her interest in the performance and imagery of power in the Roman Empire, with particular focus on spectacle and gender. She is also fascinated by representations of the ancient Mediterranean in […]
Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureships
Internet sensation Milo Rossi — better known to his 3+ million followers as "miniminuteman" — is coming to St. Louis for an unforgettable evening of science, skepticism, and side-splitting commentary. This isn't your typical archaeology lecture. With more than a billion views, the self-proclaimed “Googledebunker” has become one of the most trusted voices in debunking […]
Christopher Nolan’s movie The Odyssey (2026), based on the epic poem of the same name attributed to Homer in antiquity, has drawn huge audiences and generated debates among scholars, film […]
Jacob Lauinger, Johns Hopkins University Gilman Hall room 50 The Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem: History as Metaphor and Simile In 701 BCE, the Assyrian army besieged the city of Jerusalem. Different narratives describing this siege are preserved both in the Hebrew Bible and also in the Assyrian king Sennacherib’s own royal annals. In this lecture, […]