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  • 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 some of the finest in ancient Egyptian sculpture. Crafted for eternity, these statues served as “bodies” through which the king could function in this life […]

  • Lecture – Virtual Egypt: 3D Teaching with Museum Collections

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

    Speaker: 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 hold rich yet often underutilized resources for teaching about ancient Egypt. With the growing availability of 3D and virtual reality technologies—such as photogrammetry, 3D scanning, […]

  • The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptian Artists

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

    Hana 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 […]

  • Exploring Human Origins at Kenya’s Lake Turkana

    Exploring Human Origins at Kenya’s Lake Turkana

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

    Free 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; National Geographic Explorer at Large Kenya’s fossil-rich Turkana Basin has been—for over five decades—a cornerstone in unraveling the story of human origins in Africa. In […]

  • Hybrid lecture: Teotihuacan: Origins, Urbanism, and Daily Life

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

    2025 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 ago, stands today as a premier archaeological site and a powerful symbol of Mexico’s precolonial heritage. Despite its enduring fame and millions of annual visitors, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Worshiping the Ancestors in Egypt’s Tell Edfu

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

    Nadine 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 years. This lecture explores recent discoveries at Tell Edfu, focusing on an elite residential complex from around 1550 BCE. Among the highlights is a large […]

  • Forever Is Now: Contemporary Art at the Pyramids of Giza

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

    Nadine 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 of ancient Egypt’s cultural heritage, the contemporary installations are a testament to the continual evolution of art, the transformative power of storytelling, and cross-cultural exchange. […]

  • Gods, Warriors, and Stars: A Close Relationship in Chichén Itzá

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

    María 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 and the so-called Toltec civilizations in the Yucatan Peninsula. The site’s monuments, dating to the 10th–15th centuries, showcase both Maya and foreign architectural elements, and […]

  • 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 (INAH) was created in 1978 after the discovery of a huge monolith depicting Coyolxauhqui, the Aztec moon goddess. Since then, other impressive public monuments and […]

  • 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 the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua, Greenland. His discovery predated all previous evidence by over 300 million years. […]

  • 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 Divinity School Wade Campbell (Diné), Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology, Boston University Join Stephanie Mach (Diné), Peabody Museum Curator of North American Collections and […]