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AIA Student Affairs Interest Group Dissertation Lecture: “In Search of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, and Territory in the Peloponnese”

Every year, the AIA Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG)Dissertation Lecture speaker is Shannon M. Dunn (Bryn Mawr College), who will be presenting her lecture: "In Search of Border Sanctuaries: Religion, Landscape, and Territory in the Peloponnese". Join us for her virtual lecture on Zoom on Tuesday, May 7th at 2pm Eastern. Register for the lecture […]

Gordion: Recent Work and Unknotting Old Questions

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Recent Field Work at Gordion C. Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology, Curator-in-Charge Penn Museum, Mediterranean Section & Director of Excavations at Gordion Recent work has focused primarily on architectural conservation, research on tumuli, and remote sensing. On the south side of the Citadel Mound, the newly discovered city gate appears to have […]

Pithoi in the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean

STUDIES ON PITHOS AS A STORAGE AND BURIAL VESSEL IN THE ANCIENT CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE WORLD Zoom details https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscO2tqDwrGNRlFl9z_wCGf1LI5IJAJZxJ Meeting ID: 821 7456 7120. Password: 118192.

In search of a lost hydraulic treasure in Iraqi Kurdistan: how to virtually study abandoned subterranean qanat systems

The Embassy Public House 1435 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL, United States

Talk by Dr. Mehrnoush Soroush (Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Chicago) Throughout the Middle Ages, thousands of miles of underground water management infrastructure, known as qanats, were built to sustain thriving societies despite the arid environments of the Middle East and Central Asia. There is enormous interest in the history and functioning of qanat […]

From the Green Sahara to Kushite Pharaohs: Common origins, differentiation, and the long term entanglements of Nubians and Egyptians

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

In-person Lecture Saturday, May 11 at 3:30 pm EST Penn Museum, Classroom L2 Speaker: Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith Lecture Topic: From the Green Sahara to Kushite Pharaohs: Common origins, differentiation, and the long term entanglements of Nubians and Egyptians Abstract: Egyptologists have for a long time seen Egypt as isolated along the Nile and a […]

Lasers without Lost Cities: LiDAR Mapping and Conservation Challenges in the Cloud Forests of Peru

May 23rd (Thursday) 5:00pm PT AIA-LA Spring Ahmanson Virtual Lecture Lasers without Lost Cities: LiDAR Mapping and Conservation Challenges in the Cloud Forests of Peru Dr. Parker VanValkenburgh Associate Professor Brown University Archaeological research employing LiDAR (light detection and ranging) has enabled scholars to produce incredible images of ancient landscapes in forested environments. In the […]