Adult Events In partnership with internationally-renowned artist, composer, and educator Hannibal Lokumbe, the Penn Museum presents Stolen Legacy, a libretto and musical commentary on the removal of art from the African continent. This provocative piece responds to how, in Lokumbe’s own words, “the exchange of money for art created expressly for the spiritual maintenance of […]
A lecture hosted by the Long Island Society of the AIA. Dr. Victor Thompson, of the University of Georgia, will present on “Ancient engineering of fish captured and storage in southwest Florida in the 16th century by Calusa Native Americans."
The Phoenician city of La Fonteta, Guardamar, Spain Dr. Alberto J. Lorrio, Dr. Mariano Torres, and Ester López Rosendo La Fonteta is a site of urban character dated in the Early Iron Age (8th-6th centuries BC). It is placed on a coastal promontory next to the mouth of the river Segura. Archaeological excavations carried out […]
When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century BCE, her new followers had to build sanctuaries appropriate to an Egyptian goddess. In the process of imagining a place for their Greek Isis to dwell, devotees came up with a wide range of eclectic solutions that intertwined local needs, imperialist fantasy, and fantastical […]
Virtual lecture which is part of the AIA Archaeology Abridged Series.
Joukowsky Lecture
Kershaw Lecture
