Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro
School of Business (SBUS) 110, Montclair State University 1 Normal Ave, Montclair, NJJoukowsky Lecture
Joukowsky Lecture
Abstract: Farming spread from its center of origin in western Asia to southern Europe at the beginning of the Holocene. This phenomenon has prompted many questions. Why did farming spread when it did? Who brought it to southern Europe, and by what means? Migrant farmers from western Asia reached the Aegean before 9,000 cal BP […]
Calling all kids and families! Have you ever wanted to explore the museum galleries after dark? Join us during Up Late with the Sphinx for an evening filled with games and gallery activities. Drop into a hands-on workshop and make something special to take home, then finish your evening with a flashlight tour through the […]
Norton Lecture
Norton Lecture
The first excavations at ancient Phoenix (in southwestern Turkey), beginning in 2022, have yielded extensive evidence for the existence of an Apollo Sanctuary at the site, which was in use from the early Hellenistic period. The archaeological data have shown that the Doric temple transformed into a basilica in late antiquity, serving as a church […]
Joukowsky Lecture
Joukowsky Lecture
Around 100 CE, a huge metropolis began to emerge in the Basin of Mexico, one the Aztecs would later call Teotihuacan, or “Birthplace of the Gods.” It quickly came to dominate the region, and, with its completely new urban grid-plan, contained as many as 150,000 people. Its two gigantic buildings, the Pyramids of the Sun […]