On Tuesday, April 26, 2022, we're asking thousands of archaeology enthusiasts like you to join together to support professional archaeologists and their important work by participating in our inaugural AIA Giving Day. Your gift will help protect threatened archaeological sites, provide scholarships to future archaeologists, and promote archaeology across the globe. What if we told […]
Broneer Lecture
Forsyth Lecture
In ancient Athens, as today, people got sick. Suffering from anything from epidemic disease and accidents to chronic illness and passing indisposition, they required treatment. Much of what we know […]
The Archaeology of a Viking Age Chieftain's Power Center in Mosfell Valley, Iceland Forsyth Lecture
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture members are invited to a fun, informative, rotating tour of our newest exhibitions. Curators, exhibitions staff, and educators will discuss the making of Mediterranean Marketplaces in the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Muchos Méxicos in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and From the Hands of […]
Susan Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Washington University, St. Louis (srotroff@wustl.edu) A large, irregular boulder fenced off by a parapet of stone slabs lies at a crossroads on the north side of the Agora (the public square) of ancient Athens. When excavated, in the 1970s, I, t was covered with hundreds […]
