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Amelia Edwards: The Founding of the Egyptian Exploration Fund and the Exodus

Greenburgh Pubic Library 300 Tarrytown Road, Elmsford, NY, NY

Amelia Edwards was the driving force behind the creation in 1882 of the Egyptian Exploration Fund (EEF, now Egyptian Exploration Society). The story of this individual is a remarkable one. As a woman of no money and no formal training in Egyptology who had spent decades of her life in totally unrelated activities, her formidable […]

Project Archaeology – welcome to public, private and home school students

Sappington House Museum 1015 S Sappington Rd, Crestwood, MO

International Archaeology Day lecture "Project Archaeology - welcome to public, private and home school students" - a presentation by Gail Lundeen, past president of the Missouri Archaeological Society. Program held at the Sappington House Museum. More events are listed here on the St. Louis Society webpage.

Dr. Scott S. Williams: “The Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos, Oregon’s Beeswax Wreck”

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) 2316 West 1st Avenue, Spokane, Washington, United States

The Galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos left the Philippine Islands for the Port of Acapulco in New Spain (Mexico) in July 1693, loaded with Asian luxury goods of silk, fine cottons, porcelain, spices, art, and beeswax, in large blocks and candles. The ship, undermanned and with an inexperienced captain, somehow went hundreds of miles off […]

Using isotopic data to understand mobility and economic integration between coastal and interior settlements in Late Prehistoric Portugal

150 Art Building West (ABW) 141 N Riverside Dr, Iowa City, IA, United States

Dr. Waterman (Associate Professor of Biology, Mt. Mercy University) is the 2020 recipient of the AIA Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship and is excited to present her research to our society. Please join us as she enlightens us about the Portuguese Estremadura’s Late Neolithic through Early Bronze Age (c.3500-1500 BCE) periods. Large fortified coastal and interior […]