Using Generative AI to Support Ancient Language Teaching
This free, hybrid session will discuss the different types of generative AI tools, ethical considerations for using AI and hands-on tutorials employing a variety of AI tools.
Tracking (in)visible states and Domestic Spaces
CfA for Session 13: Tracking (in)visible states and Domestic Spaces through Microarchaeology from Protohistory to Roman times: Iberia and North Africa.
The Nile Delta. Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period
This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century.
The Salvage of a Roman wooden cellar
The exceptionally well-preserved wooden cellar from the Roman Nida was in the past months, completely recovered and conserved by restorers at the Frankfurt Archaeological Museum.
Could a family’s obsidian blade be a clue to expedition’s trail?
It’s a small piece of obsidian, just over 5 centimeters long, likely found on a hard-scrabble piece of ranchland in the Texas panhandle.
Humans and animals in Antiquity
This seminar brings together archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, philologists and historians of philosophy and science, who explore human-animal relations in the past.
Introduction to GIS for Egyptologists
This short course will give participants a basic understanding of the nature and operation of a GIS and how it can be used in Egyptology.
Borderscapes of Ancient Egypt
Symposium that marks the end of the BORDERSCAPE Project. Online on MS Teams.
Gender in the ANE, ASOR AM 2024
Abstracts are now invited for the 2024 ASOR Session on Gender in the Ancient Near East to be held at the Annual Meeting in Boston.
Rembrandt – Hoogstraten: Colour and Illusion
For the first time, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna will present an exhibition on the important Baroque painter Rembrandt.
Haifa Center for Mediterranean History postdoctoral fellowships
The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH) seeks applications for postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2024-25.
Stories for Faces
Forensics and facial reconstruction expert Chris Rynn has recreated the faces of four Scots. Presented by the Perth Museum.
Did Neanderthals use glue?
Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered.
Jan Assmann Has Passed Away
He redefined ancient Egyptian religion, literature, and history, through the prism of Cultural Theory and Memory, Reception Studies, Historical Anthropology, and even Theology.
Birds have been adapting to human activity for millennia
Roughly 14,500 to 10,500 years ago humans created a habitat for birds that would otherwise have migrated, a new study reveals.
Researchers attempt to document Gullah Geechee history
Within the depths of the lower Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers lie remnants of the region's history of rice cultivation and the enslaved West Africans and their descendants.
Stellenbosch Ancient Studies Research Seminar 2024
Seminars happen in hybrid format at 17:00 (SAST) on Tuesdays: in-person in Arts 332 (Arts and Social Sciences Building, cnr Ryneveld and Merriman in Stellenbosch), and online via Microsoft Teams.
Insight into the cave life of early human settlements in the Amazon
Some of the earliest people to migrate to South America during the late Pleistocene era turned shallow caves in the Amazon into homes and safe havens.
Did Eurasia’s dominant East-West axis “turn the fortunes of history”?
New research shows that environmental barriers have influenced the spread of cultural innovations but do not consistently favour Eurasia.
Cultural Heritage in Crisis: People Oriented
This multi-year workshop centers on the people behind cultural heritage before, during, and after conflict.
Website Turin Papyrus Collection
The Museo Egizio in Turin has its own website for the Turin Papyrus Collection.
“Until death do us part”
The journal article explores the funerary deposition of animal remains and the nature of joint human-animal burials at Seminario Vescovile.
Unesco Releases Gaza Strip Damage Assessment Report
20 of the sites designated as of interest are located in Gaza City (Gaza Governorate), one in Jabalia and one in Rafah
Excavation at Kalavasos-Laroumena and Arkhangelos
The Kalavasos-Laroumena Archaeological project studies the Middle Cypriot Bronze Age (c. 2000-1650BC) in the Vasilikos Valley.