There Is More To Egypt than Tut: Challenges for Egyptology and Egyptologists The Archaeological Institute of America, Westchester Society, and the New York chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt are pleased to present to present the following free online symposium “There Is More To Egypt than Tut: Challenges for Egyptology and Egyptologists.” Date: […]
Saturday, October 15 3:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Anthro Classroom 345 In-person; no registration required Speaker: Dr. Valentina Anselmi, PhD, UPenn Title: The Second Style at Saqqara during the Late […]
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an archaeologist? Attend Michigan Archaeology Day on Saturday, October 18, 2025, for your chance to talk with archaeologists about investigations and […]
Lecture. Sean Dolan (Los Alamos Laboratories). For nearly two millennia, people in the US Southwest and Mexican Northwest have maintained a significant relationship with turkeys, a bird they domesticated for […]
The Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE) in the Eastern Mediterranean stands out in the history of the ancient world as a time of political and economic consolidation, with multiple great powers – Mycenae, Babylonia, Egypt, the Hittites – exerting their military power in the region and engaging in an unprecedented degree of international trade and […]
Over the next several years, we will be examining a number of different archaeological sites. What makes Montpelier a wonderful property for surveys and excavations is its relative undisturbed condition. […]
Join members and guests of the Archaeological Institute of America’s Iowa Society for a virtual conversation via Zoom about how to land a job in or related to archaeology. We […]
Dr. Kevin Dicus (University of Oregon) Roman imperial ambitions began with the occupation of Italy. The Etruscans, once the dominant civilization, experienced great cultural and political upheavals. Foreign traditions, goods, […]
It's a new year and a great new slate of lectures! This winter, our lectures will be online using Microsoft Teams. We're very excited to present Dr. Michelle Cameron, from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her lecture, "How Humans Negotiated Environments in the Past," will take place on Sunday, February 6th […]
Some of the most stunning jewelry from Ancient Egypt is made of amethyst. Its craftsmanship, opulence, and design epitomize quality in the ancient world. Yet the skill in making this jewelry started long before the cutting and buffing of the raw stone. Procuring amethyst in the Eastern Desert is fraught with many more perils and […]
The Iowa Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents: "Female Benefactors in the Roman Empire" by Dr. Rachel Meyers (Iowa State University) Evidence for the Roman practice of public […]
Dr. Sabrina Higgins (Simon Fraser University, B.C.) The Virgin Mary is an enigmatic Biblical figure, one who rises from relative unimportance in the canonical gospels to become one of the most prominent figures in Christianity. The theological discourse that culminated with the declaration of Mary as Theotokos (‘God bearer’) at the Council of Ephesus in […]
