Rockford Society Lecture
Burpee Museum of Natural History 737 North Main St., Rockford, IL, United StatesThe Archaeology of a Viking Age Chieftain's Power Center in Mosfell Valley, Iceland Forsyth Lecture
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 […]
Public Lecture by Rebecca Benefiel, Professor of Classics, Washington and Lee University. Rebecca Benefiel is a Professor of Classics who specializes in Latin literature and Roman archaeology. Her research interests focus on the social and cultural history of the Roman Empire and Latin epigraphy. She is a supervisor for the Epigraphic Database Roma, part of […]
Masks and vaccination required for in-person attendance.
Joukowsky Lecture
Dr. Sarah Adcock, Assistant Professor at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will speak about how research on the Late Bronze Age has often focused on elite lives and history, but the daily lives of non- elite have remained unexamined. How were local practices of day-to-day life shaped by imperial […]
Step back in time to explore the island of Crete, center of the Minoan civilization during the Bronze Age, as well as the nearby Cycladic Islands of Santorini, Mykonos, and Delos. Marvel at the physical evidence of this first advanced civilization in Europe, which created palace complexes, stunning works of art, a unique writing system […]
