The Enigmatic Treasure of a Nubian Queen
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 […]
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Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
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Lecture – Virtual Egypt: 3D Teaching with Museum Collections
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Faculty Curator of Egyptology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley University museums […]
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The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptian Artists
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHana Navratilova, Fellow, Royal Historical Society, UK; Supernumerary Fellow, University of Oxford, Harris Manchester College Jaroslav Černý (1898–1970) was a distinguished Egyptologist known for his groundbreaking work on the social and cultural history of ancient Egypt, particularly the community of artisans at Deir el-Medina, a village near the Valley of the Kings. His research on […]
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Exploring Human Origins at Kenya’s Lake Turkana
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFree Public Lecture – Online & In Person 2025 Hallam L. Movius, Jr. Lecture Series Louise Leakey, Director, Koobi Fora Research Project; Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University; […]
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Hybrid lecture: Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States2025 Gordon R. Willey Lecture David M. Carballo, Professor of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Latin American Studies, Boston University Teotihuacan, one of the largest cities in the world over 1,500 years […]
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Murder, Poetry, and Scribes in Ancient Egypt
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFree 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 […]
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Worshiping the Ancestors in Egypt’s Tell Edfu
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesNadine Moeller, Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University Tell Edfu, in southern Egypt, is an ancient Egyptian city that was occupied for nearly 3,000 […]
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Forever Is Now: Contemporary Art at the Pyramids of Giza
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesNadine Abdel Ghaffar, Founder & Curator, CulturVator|Art D'Égypte Forever Is Now is a contemporary art exhibition at the 4500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Pyramids of Giza. Against the backdrop […]
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Gods, Warriors, and Stars: A Close Relationship in Chichén Itzá
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMaría Teresa Uriarte Castañeda, Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Chichén Itzá—a World Heritage Site—is the most important archaeological record of the fusion between Maya […]
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The Archaeology of Tenochtitlan: An Overview
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesLeonardo 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 […]
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The Last Human
Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWINNER 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 […]