A millennium ago, Native people constructed over 120 earthen mounds at the site of Cahokia, a World Heritage site in Illinois. Built entirely by hand, the largest of these constructions towered 100 feet over a city that was more densely populated than the contemporary medieval city of London. Over two thousand years before Cahokia’s construction, […]
Manton Lecture Please contact Phil Stinson and William Bruce for the Zoom link.
Lecture by Eric H. Cline, Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at George Washington University. Co-sponsored by the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies and the Richmond Society of the AIA.
2023 Richard Hubbard Howland Lecture, Washington, DC Society; by Professor Jenifer Neils, Professor Emerita, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is perhaps the most readily recognizable building in the world, and during the past two millennia our understanding of it and its sculptural decoration has continued to evolve. This […]
Archaeology of Portugal Lecture
The final presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America's Dayton Society 2022-2023 Lecture Series presented by Northern Cheyenne Tribe citizen Marsha Small, M.A. from Montana State University and Dr. Jarrod Burks from Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc. Since 2016 Marsha Small and Jarrod Burks have been conducting geophysical investigations to identify the locations of over 200 […]
ZOOM Lecture entitled "Diet and Cuisine at Pompeii" by Dr. Scott Stull ( SUNY - Cortland). 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.
Stone Lecture
ARCE-PA Lecture Saturday April 15 at 3:30pm Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Ellen Morris, Associate Professor of Ancient Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University Lecture Topic: Famine and Festival in Ancient Egypt Abstract: In pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt, two occurrences had the power to radically transform the status quo: revolts and episodes of mass mortality. […]
Venture with us into the world of collector and philanthropist James Loeb to uncover his personality, examine his influence on ancient studies, and delight in the small objects that filled his life. Specialists from different fields will present various aspects about Loeb, and together they will help us see a complete portrait. Florian Knauss, from […]
