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The Best of Ancient Peru

Travel and learn with AIA lecturer/host Gabriela Cervantes-Quequezana plus a professional tour manager and local guides. Your AIA lecturer will provide insights to spectacular archaeological sites from Peru’s many layers of ancient civilizations, plus anthropological insights to the country’s diverse cultural traditions and ecosystems. This custom-designed, 15-night itinerary is carefully paced with three nights each […]

Peru: Ancient Cultures of the Coast & Andes

Join AIA Lectuer and Host Dr. Gabriela Cervantes-Quequezana who is a Peruvian anthropological archaeologist. She has done extensive field research through survey and excavations in several regions of Peru, including the north, south, coast, and highlands. Gabriela is the director of the Chira Archaeological Project, which investigates local north coast societies like Tallán and the […]

San Francisco’s “Titanic”: The Loss of SS City of Rio de Janeiro

San Francisco Maritime Museum 900 Beach St, San Francisco, CA, United States

The 1901 shipwreck of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s SS City of Rio de Janeiro was the deadliest ever at the Golden Gate. Maritime archaeologist and historian James Delgado will […]

The Legacy of the Etruscans: Latium, Umbria & Tuscany

Discover the world of the ancient Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilization that flourished in the area between Rome and Florence from at least the 7th century B.C. until they were conquered by the Romans in the 3rd century B.C. The extent of the impact that the Etruscans’ legacy had on the Greeks and Romans, through to our […]

The Living Dead in Ancient Egypt

Geological Lecture Hall 24 Oxford Street,, Cambridge, MA

“Oh Unas, you have not gone away dead, but alive.” The Pyramid Text quoted here tells us that the ancient Egyptians believed in the continued influence of the dead in the lives of the living. The dead in ancient Egypt were supernatural intermediaries, folk heroes, and some were even deified, worshiped as gods in the […]