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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 States

    Please 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 […]

  • Baptism in Early Christianity and Baptismal Inscriptions in Asia Minor

    Orthodox Academy of Crete Kolymvari, Greece

    Water 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 […]

  • Science Spotlights: The Case of the Immortal Chemicals & Learning about the Deep Past from Ancient DNA

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Classroom B, Third Floor Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Classroom B, Third Floor, Cambridge, MA, United States

    In-Person Presentation Science Spotlights: The Case of the Immortal Chemicals & Learning about the Deep Past from Ancient DNA Saturday, March 7, 2:00–3:30 pm Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Classroom B, Third Floor Meet up-and-coming scientists and learn about questions at the forefront of research today in this series of short talks. […]

  • Re-Encountering Egypt: Museums and the Human Experience in the Age of AI

    Penn Museum 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Saturday, March 7 3:30 pm EST In-person only at the Penn Museum, Classroom L2 No registration required Special Event: Annual Korsyn Lecture in honor of Felix J. Korsyn Speaker: Prof. Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley Title: Re-Encountering Egypt: […]

  • Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Tours Led by Harvard Students

    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 States

    Harvard 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: […]

  • Expanding the Ancient World K-12 Educator Workshop | The Power of Monsters in Ancient Western Asia: Magic, Seals, Monuments and the Logic of Images

    This workshop will take place online; a Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants. Registration is required at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyQI1d1826G0ZeS19z8s46qt_KvtysJAgmaBAYjIXDu_pZ2Q/viewform Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Keyed to the NYC Department of Education Social Studies Scope and Sequence, this program is designed to […]

  • The Future of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Free Hybrid Lecture The Future of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife Wednesday, March 11, 6:00–7:00 pm ET, Advance registration recommended for online and in-person attendance Speaker: Rune Nyord, Associate Professor and Chair, Art History Department, Emory University Could some of our familiar ideas about the ancient Egyptian afterlife be more Christian than Egyptian? Recent studies suggest […]

  • Climate Change and Resilience in Medieval Anatolia

    Business Building 2-09 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    AIA’s George H. Forsyth, Jr. Memorial Lecture (Link: https://www.archaeological.org/endowment/george-h-forsyth-jr-memorial-lectures/) Dr. Marica Cassis, Department of History, University of Calgary What does climate resilience mean in the context of the Late Roman and Medieval World of Anatolia? Current excavations at the site of Çadır Höyük in Yozgat province, central Türkiye provide insight into how communities adapted and […]

  • Prof. Debby Sneed, Assistant Professor of Classics, California State University, Long Beach, “Disability and the Greek Ideal: A Case Study in Marble”

    College of the Holy Cross, Hogan Campus Center, Room 401 (an accessible space) 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, United States

    The study of Greek art is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude aspects of bodily difference and disability. In this talk, I consider a collection of 6th century BCE sculptures of maidens (korai) that were found on the Athenian Acropolis. As traditionally […]