Dr. Cline will discuss what happened after the Bronze Age world of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean collapsed. He will highlight why some civilizations endured, some gave way to new […]
Lecture by Dr. Glenn Schwartz Whiting Professor of Archaeology Near Eastern Studies Department The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Society AIA Lecture at Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus Gilman Hall Room 50
Painted Nightmares: Wahys on Classic Maya Ceramics Joanne Baron Dumbarton Oaks - Post-Doctoral Fellow, Pre-Columbian Studies New discoveries about wahy, a category of supernatural entity that the ancient Maya believed […]
Megan Kassabaum, University of Pennsylvania On Elevated Ground: The Origins, Use, and Meaning of Early American Platform Mounds
Alice Mandell lecture William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies - Johns Hopkins University Canaanite Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age During the Amarna Age (the mid-14th century BCE), kings in the ancient Middle East corresponded with the Egyptian pharaoh. The largest group of cuneiform letters […]
Tuesday Sep. 16th, 5:30 - 6:30, JHU Homewood campus, Clark Hall Room 110 Alice Mandell lecture William Foxwell Albright Chair in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies - Johns Hopkins University Canaanite Cuneiform Culture in the Amarna Age During the Amarna Age (the mid-14th century BCE), kings in the ancient […]
Monday Oct. 27, 5:00 – 6:00, Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, Room TBA Jodi Magness Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism Department of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls In 1946-1947, the first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by accident […]
Wednesday Nov. 12, 5:30 – 6:30, Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, Room TBA C. Brian Rose James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, University Museum of […]
Wednesday Feb. 11, 5:30 - 6:30, Gilman Hall Room 50 Johns Hopkins University, Homewood campus Dorothy Kent Hill Lecture Josef Wegner, University of Pennsylvania Digging into Egypt's Late Middle Kingdom, Recent Discoveries at the Anubis-Mountain Royal Necropolis, Abydos
