This tour is offered as both a January and February departure in 2027. January 26 - February 13, 2027 and February 16 - March 6, 2027. View the February departure of this tour. This itinerary is carefully crafted to provide discerning travelers with the finest Egypttour available. Our 19-day program is the most in-depth exploration of ancient Egypt’s greatest sites, combining all the best attributes of an all-inclusive, well-paced, luxury trip with just 16 travelers.…
March 9, 2025 @ 3:00 pm
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Dr. Kara Cooney, UCLA: Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3 PM PDT This virtual lecture will be recorded. Register in advance for this lecture: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CwscA3JIRcqFh9owR0q6_Q After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information…
February 22, 2025 @ 3:30 pm
ZOOM lecture Saturday, February 22, 3:30 pm EST Registration Required: https://arce.org/event/arce-pa-kushite-royal-priestesses-in-the-house-of-the-god-by-debora-heard/ Speaker: Debora Heard Title: Kushite Royal Priestesses in the House of the God Abstract: Following Egypt’s conquest of all of Nubia in the 18th Dynasty, one of the ways these New Kingdom rulers expressed their dominance over the region was through the construction of religious temples at various sites in Upper and Lower Nubia. It is not known whether the Nubians continued to operate…
October 13, 2024 @ 3:00 pm
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, Missouri University of Science and Technology: A Field of Their Own: Putting the Women of Egyptology in Their Place Sunday October 13, 2024, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time Room 56 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley About the Lecture: Book Talk - Women in the Valley…
April 13, 2025
Many of the most magnificent and best-preserved ancient Greek and Roman sites are found along Türkiye’s beautiful Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Visit world-famous, plus little-visited yet spectacular, Greco-Roman sites, Byzantine churches, Crusader castles, and Ottoman palaces. Your engaging AIA lecturer/host, Yaşar Ersoy, teaches classical art and archaeology and has been doing fieldwork in Türkiye since 1980. Throughout the program he will offer illustrated talks and informal discussions about the sites you are visiting and their…
March 27, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
Lecture and Reception at Wagner College A woman’s power in the ancient world (and perhaps even today) was always compromised from the outset, and this lecture will address the root causes of this social inequality. Given this social reality in the ancient world, how then did women negotiate their limited leadership roles? Were they able to rule “behind the throne” so to speak? How are we to find a woman’s power when it was so…
Many of the most magnificent and best-preserved ancient Greek and Roman sites are found along Türkiye’s beautiful Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. Visit world-famous, plus little-visited yet spectacular, Greco-Roman sites, Byzantine churches, Crusader castles, and Ottoman palaces. Your engaging AIA lecturer/host, Yaşar Ersoy, teaches classical art and archaeology and has been doing fieldwork in Türkiye since 1980. Throughout the program he will offer illustrated talks and informal discussions about the sites you are visiting and their…
with 3 nights aboard private 8-cabin dahabiyas (sailboats) This itinerary is carefully crafted to provide the discerning traveler with the finest Egypt tour available. It combines all the best attributes of an in-depth, small-group, all-inclusive, well-paced, luxury trip. Highlights include: Traveling with Egyptologist Peter Brand, a distinguished and engaging study leader, who has been directing the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project since 2001; plus a wonderful local Egyptologist and an excellent tour manager The exclusivity…
The archaeological site of Deir el-Ballas was a capital for the Theban kings at the end of the Middle Kingdom period and served as a military base when the Thebans waged a war against the Hyksos. Today, the site is at risk from looting and more significantly from the expansion of the modern town of Deir el-Gharbi. Preservation work at Deir el-Ballas will be undertaken by the Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund and American…
Discover the kaleidoscope of Israel’s archaeological riches, left behind by Canaanites, Israelites, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans, and others. Dr. Jodi Magness has excavated at sites all over the Holy Land, and looks forward to introducing you to a variety of fascinating places. Highlights include: Iconic ancient and religious sites, including five that are inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list: the spectacular, tragic fortress of King Herod at Masada; the Biblical Tel (settlement mound) of…
October 20 @ 5:30 pm
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, we will look at the Judahite and Assyrian accounts of the siege, focusing on their differences. Comparing the two accounts,…
September 20 @ 3:00 pm
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, invites you to attend a Zoom lecture by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard, Missouri U. of Science and Technology: Women’s Work in Abydos: Margaret Murray, Amice Calverley and Myrtle Broome Sunday, September 20, 2026, 3 PM PDT This meeting is virtual, not in person. Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LjEuB54-RlaCCDgV4RzTvw About the Lecture: In 1902, Margaret Alice Murray got invited to work in the field—finally. Training with Flinders Petrie for…
September 23 @ 6:00 pm
The Shabaqo Stone is a monument that preserves some of the most important religious writings to survive from ancient Egypt. It was carved for Shabaqo, a Kushite king who ruled Egypt during the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty (ca. 722–655 BCE). One of its central texts is the so‑called “Memphite Theology,” which portrays the god Ptah as a universal creator who brings the world into being through the powers of thought and speech. In this talk, Joshua Roberson…
Istanbul to Naples aboard the 59-cabin Hebridean Sky We are delighted to invite you to join AIA lecturer and host Laetitia La Follette on an extraordinary voyage inspired by Homer’s Odyssey. Cruising through the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas, this immersive cruise brings together archaeology, mythology, history, and spectacular landscapes as we follow one of the world’s greatest epic journeys. Beginning in Istanbul, we embark the intimate, 59-suite Hebridean Sky and departure to legendary Troy, where…
April 4, 2027 @ 2:00 pm
Too often overshadowed by the legacy of Assyria’s ancient kings, this presentation illuminates the queens who reigned with them in ancient Iraq during the ninth and centuries BCE. We focus on the queens of Nimrud’s Northwest Palace because it is here that Iraqi archaeologists discovered their royal tombs. The tombs contained heaps of precious jewelry and regalia, along with cuneiform inscriptions, and even some skeletal remains. Putting together these artifacts of death, and connecting them…
January 8, 2027
This unique, 17-day itinerary is the perfect trip for those who wish to revisit Egypt and discover lesser-known but spectacular Pharaonic wonders. A group of just 16 guests will travel under the leadership of an exceptional and engaging trio that has been receiving accolades for 20 years: Egyptologist Stephen Harvey, along with an expert local Egyptology guide and a professional tour manager. The highlights are many and varied: • Spend a full day discovering the…
Simon Martin is a political anthropologist and historian who serves as an Associate Curator at the Penn Museum and Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in Maya hieroglyphic writing, with a particular interest in the history, politics, and religious beliefs of the Classic Period (A.D. 250-900). His most recent book, Ancient Maya Politics (Cambridge, 2020), won the AHA James Henry Breasted Prize for a work concerning history before…
April 14 @ 6:00 pm
Speaker: Denise M. Doxey, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Queen Khensa was a Nubian royal and principal wife of King Piankhy, the Kushite ruler (664–653 BCE) who conquered Egypt and established the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. She was buried in a pyramid tomb whose contents were largely plundered in antiquity. Even so, her burial still contained a variety of intriguing objects, from precious-metal vessels and…
October 9
Travel with us beyond classical Türkiye, with its monumental, Greco-Roman ruins and Aegean sea backdrops. Find more history–and prehistory–amid the beauty of southeastern Türkiye, on a route less traveled, between Tarsus, the birthplace of St. Paul, and Diyarbakır, set along the banks of the famous Tigris River that helped form the cradle of civilization. Along the way you will see the world’s earliest monumental temples, dating back over 10,000 years; explore excellent archaeological and mosaic…
February 25 @ 6:00 pm
Hybrid Lecture Monumental Ritual Texts in Ancient Egyptian Pyramids Wednesday, February 25, 6:00–7:00 pm ET, Advance registration recommended for online and in-person attendance Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Speaker: Christelle Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Brown University The earliest large-scale records of ancient Egyptian religious literature come from Saqqara, an important royal cemetery from Egypt’s Old Kingdom period. For nearly two centuries, the subterranean chambers beneath some of Saqqara’s pyramids were inscribed…
