The earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses […]
ZOOM lecture: "Discoveries in the Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt" by Dr. Kate Liszka (California Sate University, San Bernardino). Room opens at 12:45 and lecture promptly starts at 1 PM. Sign in at 12:45, please... More Zoom events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Geoff Emberling, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Univ. of Michigan: "New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal" Sunday, May 7, 2023, 3 PM Pacific […]
ARCE-PA Lecture Sunday, May 7 at 3:30pm Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Jessica Tomkins, Assistant Professor of History, Wofford College Lecture Topic: Rethinking Old Kingdom Kingship Abstract: Following Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs, our understanding of Egyptian society advanced at lightning speed with every new text published. However, this rapid pace of scholarship also caused certain […]
Beginning in 1902, the archaeological sites and monuments of Lower Nubia were increasingly threatened by the construction of the series of dams on the Nile River at Aswan. By the […]
ARCE-PA Symposium in Honor of Dr. David B. O'Connor Saturday, June 10, 9am-5pm Hybrid Event: Penn Museum, Rainey Auditorium & Webinar Lecture is FREE to attend, but requires registration for in-person and virtual options. Register here: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/1584/arce-pa-symposium Symposium Topic: Abydos Through the Ages Abstract: ARCE-PA’s June 10 2023 symposium on the archaeology of Abydos will […]
June 22nd at 6:15 pm — His Excellency Ambassador Evangelos C. Sekeris, Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations, offers an International Archaeology Day lecture for the Archaeology Committee at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. He discusses how during antiquity Greek city states formed leagues to collaborate for their mutual protection […]
MesoAmerican Mirror Conjurors - the view from the Maya City Waka" by Dr. David Freidel, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Washington University. Lecture location will be held in the A T & T room in the lower level of the Missouri History Museum. Members are invited to join us in a lunch (dutch treat) in […]
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Georgia Barker, Macquarie University/CSU San Bernardino: Preparing for Eternity: Funerary Models & Wall Scenes from the Old and Middle Kingdoms Sunday, September 10, 2023, 3 […]
In-Person Lecture Saturday, September 16 at 3:30pm Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Suzanne Onstine, Associate Professor of History, University of Memphis Lecture Topic: The Life Cycle of Theban Tomb 16 in Luxor, Egypt Abstract: Since 2008, the University of Memphis mission to Theban Tomb 16 has been documenting, clearing, and studying this non-royal monument […]
