Events

Out of Anatolia: Hittites, Homer, and the Trojan War with Sarah Morris

Cotsen Wednesday Talk- Community-Engaged Research and Indigenous Material Culture in Conservation Science and Technical Art History with Thiago Puglieri

Verena Lepper: Elephantine Goes Global

This lecture discusses a recent museum exhibition in Berlin entitled, “Elephantine. Island of the Millennia,” the results of a research project working with texts and scripts from Elephantine Island in ancient Egypt.

Archaeology of China’s Southern Silk Road: Concept, Physical Reality, or a Marco Polo Fantasy?

Whose Egypt? Challenging How Museums Portray Egypt with Heba Abd el Gawad

Cotsen Wednesday Talk with Solange Ashby

David Stuart: Myth, Time and Cosmology in the Ancient Maya Murals of San Bartolo

This talk by David Stuart (University of Texas at Austin) will present new interpretations of one of the most important artworks from ancient Maya civilization — the wall paintings of San Bartolo, Guatemala.

Cotsen Wednesday Talk- The Meaning and Use of Shell Beads among the Chumash and other California Indians with Lynne Gamble

Cancelled- The Urkesh Global Record: An Archaeological Website System with Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati and Giorgio Buccellati

Belongings: Changing Hands and Shifting Meanings in African Arts with Erica P. Jones and Carlee S. Forbes