Saturday, May 9 3:30 pm EST In-person only at the Penn Museum, Anthro Classroom 345 No registration required Speaker: Prof. Josef Wegner, Curator Penn Museum. Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Pennsylvania Title: New Discoveries in the Anubis-Mountain Royal Necropolis at Abydos Abstract: The most recent excavations of […]
Parthenon Symposium: Book Talk with Mary Beard Author of Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old Sunday May 10, 2:00 PM Central, at the Paschall Theater AIA-Nashville Society and the Parthenon are proud to partner with Montgomery Bell Academy to welcome Mary Beard to the "Athens of the South"! Join distinguished classicist Mary Beard for […]
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, invites you to attend a lecture by Dr. Patricia Butz, UC Riverside: "Egyptian Gardens and Greek Grids: The Middle Kingdom Funerary Garden at Dra Abu el-Naga, the Stele of Moskhion, and Greek Stoikhedon" Sunday, May 10, 3 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time Live Oak Community Center (New […]
Dear Colleagues, We are glad to inform you that an international e-conference on worked shells in the ancient world (material, use, typology, chronology and context) will take place on May 20, 2026 on Zoom.us. This forthcoming online meeting will be an archaeomalacological workshop in honour of Jean-Paul Descœudres from the Universities of Geneva and Sydney. […]
Join Harvard professor Paul Russell for a discussion about Celtic languages and writing in this tour of the exhibition “Celtic Art Across the Ages.” Focusing on inscriptions and manuscripts, Russell will delve into scripts, language, writing, and surviving texts. Led by: Paul Russell, Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Department of Celtic […]
Deepening our understanding of African heritage often starts in spaces that celebrate our history, but while museums house these stories, it is archaeology that unearths them. While the world is well-acquainted with the architectural wonders of the Mediterranean and the Near East, the vast archaeological landscape of the African continent has often remained on the […]
Join us for a complimentary webinar on best practices for archaeological field sampling and material selection for radiocarbon dating. Designed for archaeologists, geoarchaeologists, and heritage professionals, this session will provide practical guidance on selecting the right samples in the field to build robust site chronologies, avoid common pitfalls, and improve the reliability of dating results. […]
Dr. Jack Green (Associate Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs, Washington and Lee University) will present a lecture entitled "Tell es-Sa'idiyeah Cemetery (Jordan) and its connections to ancient Egypt and Persia." A reception and chance to talk with the speaker will be held afterwards.
Join us for a day of archaeological investigations at Fort Brewerton! This year we will be spending an additional day on the ditch feature found last year on the north side of the location of barracks building we call blockhouse # 4. Previous excavations in this area over the last 5 years have yielded many […]
Join Harvard graduate student Anthony Ortega for a discussion of an elite Iron Age burial site called Kleinaspergle tumulus. Discovered in southwestern Germany, it contained an assemblage of both imported and locally produced objects. Ortega will focus on a selection of objects on display in the special exhibition Celtic Art Across the Ages, while exploring […]
Join us for a second day of archaeological investigations at Fort Brewerton! Following our first excavation on the 6th of June , this day will be used to excavate a new radar anomaly found last year during our survey. Ground penetrating radar seems to indicate 2 intermittent linear features in that area. Like dashed or […]
Knotwork has long been associated with Celtic art; it has decorated illuminated manuscripts, been tooled into fine metalwork and jewelry, and been carved into wood and stone. The methods of construction—passed down from master to apprentice for over a thousand years—were nearly lost until rediscovered in the late 20th century. Join Celtic illuminator Michael Carroll […]
