Dr. Cline will discuss what happened after the Bronze Age world of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean collapsed. He will highlight why some civilizations endured, some gave way to new ones, and some disappeared forever. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration.
Dr. Andrew L. Goldman, Professor of History, Gonzaga University On 10 March, 241 BCE, the final naval battle of the First Punic War was fought off western Sicily, where a […]
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Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, Founder & Curator, CulturVator|Art D'Égypte Forever Is Now is a contemporary art exhibition at the 4500-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Pyramids of Giza. Against the backdrop of ancient Egypt’s cultural heritage, the contemporary installations are a testament to the continual evolution of art, the transformative power of storytelling, and cross-cultural exchange. […]
In this presentation Dr. Derek Kennet, Howard E. Hallengren Professor in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf States Archaeology, ISAC, University of Chicago, will discuss one of the most important and least understood periods in the development of the world economy. About 1,200 years ago, at a time when the early Islamic empire of the Abbasids in […]
Anita Krause Bader Lecture in Mediterranean Archaeology, by Dr. Nadhira Hill (Assistant Professor of Classics and Director of Archaeological Studies, Randolph-Macon College)
How does a cartoonist adapt a scholarly work of history, specifically Eric H. Cline’s 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed? Prof. Eric H. Cline and award-winning illustrator Glynnis Fawkes describe the process of interpreting Eric’s text in comics. This meant making historical figures (such as Ramses III) speak, as well as imagining characters for whom we have no […]
Lecture by Dr. Erin Bornemann, Director of Information Management for the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. The mortuary record affords archaeologists a unique snapshot in time and space, […]
Available during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025. This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]
The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California chapter, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Leah Packard-Grams, UC […]
For the first time, the Polychromy Round Table will take place outside Europe, in the United States, where ancient polychromy studies have a long history. Building upon the encouraging experiences in Berlin (2020) and Rome (2022), this meeting will explore considerable developments, focused research projects, and a growing interest in the topic that characterize the […]
The Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco Society, is thrilled to welcome Dr. Camille Acosta (UC Irvine) to the UC Berkeley campus to share her research on immigrant communities in Classical Athens and archaeological evidence for their burials. Abstract: Classical Athens is widely known for being the birthplace of democracy, a political system in which […]
Lecture by Keith Kintigh (Arizona State University). The Chaco Era has received a tremendous amount of archaeological consideration over the last 45 years. Far less attention has been paid to […]
November 19, 2024 7:30 p.m. ET Davidson College Belk Visual Arts Center 117 Free and open to the public Luca Lai, “Beyond the stone giants: an isotopic perspective on life […]
We are privileged that the Deputy Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations addresses the National Arts Club on the occasion of International Archaeology Day, the committee's most significant annual lecture. Ambassador Miller discusses The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, established in 1984 and located at the University of Haifa, whose installations display the […]
Join us for a free, fun night at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. Come with a date, come with friends, or make new friends while strolling through the galleries. Explore the art of craft beer making from 6:00 to 7:00 pm with the founders of Bow & Arrow Brewing Co., based in Albuquerque, […]
Dr. Tiffany Fulkerson will discuss her work on PNW studies. Home to the sʔukʷnaʔqín (Okanogan) people, the Okanogan Highlands of northern Washington is a region characterized by mountainous terrain with diverse habitats ranging from forests to desert shrub-steppe. While oral traditions and archaeological and ethnographic data speak to a long history of cultural use of […]
The second presentation in the Archaeological Institute of America Dayton Society's 2024-2025 Lecture Series presented by Dr. Brad Lepper, Senior Archaeologist World Heritage Program, Ohio History Connection Serpent Mound in […]
Available during the Harvard academic year Sundays at 1:00 pm, October 6, 2024–April 27, 2025. See blackout dates.* *Blackout dates: December 1, 2024–January 26, 2025; and March 16–23, 2025. This free tour, led by Harvard students, explores the Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World exhibition and how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around […]
