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  • The Living Dead in Ancient Egypt

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

    “Oh Unas, you have not gone away dead, but alive.” The Pyramid Text quoted here tells us that the ancient Egyptians believed in the continued influence of the dead in […]

  • Augmented Reality Maya Chocolate Plate

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Drop-in Activity For International Archaeology Day, "shrink" yourself down to "walk" into an ancient Maya vessel using augmented reality! Maya women were often essential for uniting kingdoms. When a marriage […]

  • The Mummies of Aswan: The Missing Link (Free Hybrid Lecture)

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

    In recent years more than four hundred ancient tombs, dating from the 6th century BCE to the 3rd century CE, have been discovered on the West Bank at Aswan, Egypt, […]

  • Caring for Navajo Culture: In Museums and Beyond

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

    Stephanie Mach (Diné), Curator of North American Collections, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University Cynthia Wilson (Diné), Native and Indigenous Rights Fellow, Religion and Public Life Program, Harvard […]

  • Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World – exhibit opening

    Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Much like today, ancient “consumers” were connected to distant markets. Both basic and precious goods from faraway lands “shipped” to royal palaces, elite estates—sometimes even rural households—and technological advances in craftsmanship and commerce transcended boundaries of language, religion, or culture to spread rapidly. Mediterranean Marketplaces explores how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]

  • The Last Human

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

    WINNER OF THE NORDIC:DOX AWARD 2022 Denmark, Greenland / 2022 Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered […]

  • Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard

    Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Venture on archaeological expeditions around the world in this annual event for all ages. Talk with archaeologists who study ancient Egyptian, Aztec, and Inca civilizations and more. Try ancient cuneiform writing and a new app that animates detailed wall art in Assyrian palaces. Peer beneath the ground with a virtual reality experience, and check out […]

  • The Archaeology of Tenochtitlan: An Overview

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

    Leonardo López Luján, Director, Proyecto Templo Mayor; Senior Research Professor, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico City The Proyecto Templo Mayor of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia […]

  • National Fossil Day

    Harvard Museum of Natural History 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    What treasures are found in the Harvard University paleontology collections? Meet Harvard paleontologists to find out! See their favorite fossils, learn about their research, and ask them your questions. Join […]

  • Murder, Poetry, and Scribes in Ancient Egypt

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

    Free Public Lecture – Online & In Person Margaret Geoga, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, The University of Chicago “The Teaching of Amenemhat” is the only ancient Egyptian literary work to describe the assassination of a king. Told from the perspective of the murdered Pharaoh Amenemhat I, the poem is remarkable for its grim subject matter […]

  • Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure

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

    Speaker: Florence Dunn Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University King Menkaure’s Fourth Dynasty pyramid temples at Giza were once filled with statues. The surviving statues represent […]