Announcements and Events

Workshops & Seminars for Teachers

Digging into the Past: Teacher's Workshop and Hands-On Learning on the Practice and Promise of Archaeology

9am to 4pm, October 5, 2005, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA. More details.

Teacher's Workshop on Near Eastern Archaeology

9am to 5pm, Saturday November 19, 2005, Philadephia, PA. More information

NEH Summer Institute. A six week course in Boston held in summer 2005. More information

Dig Opportunities

Tutankhamen - The Golden Beyond
official website

Treasures from the Valley of the Kings is a world wide exhibition of some 120 artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamen and other royal tombs of the 18th Dynasty.

June 16 - November 15, 2005: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

November 15, 2005 - April 23, 2006
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art
One East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Tel: (954) 525-5500

May 26, 2006 - January 01, 2007
Field Museum of Natural History
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL  60605-2496
Tel: (312) 922-9410

February 3, 2007 - September 30, 2007
The Franklin Institute
222 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: (215) 448-1200

Arts of the Islamic World

Freer Gallery of Art
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012, MRC 707
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Open daily 10am-5:30pm, except Dec. 25. Admission is free.

Go to the webpage on the exhibition, which includes an online gallery showcasing calligraphy, design, and manuscripts from the exhibit.

Jannotta Mesopotamian Gallery at the Oriental Institute, Univ. of Chicago

Oriental Institute
1155 East 68th St.
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637

After an extensive seven-year renovation, the Oriental Institute re-opened its Mesopotamian gallery in October 2003. Features include the famous winged bull statue from Khorsabad as well as a wealth of artifacts from the Paleolithic to the Sassanian period. For more information, see the website on the gallery re-opening.

Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum

April 3 - September 4, 2005
Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, TX

Features calligraphy, art made for the courts, and a 15th century mimbar (high pulpit) from a mosque in Cairo.

Beginning February 1, 2005
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Collection presents some 300 works from one of the world's most significant private collections of Islamic art.

Petra: Lost City of Stone

April 4 - August 15, 2005
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI

Traveling exhibition, featuring extraordinary art and artifacts from the red sandstone cliff city in southern Jordan. Go to the website for the exhibit.

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur

October 21, 2005 through January 15, 2006
St. Louis Art Museum
Forest Park, 1 Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110

After being exhibited across the country for several years, the artifacts from the Royal Tombs of Ur return to the U.S. This rare collection of artifacts was excavated by a joint British Museum / Univ. of Pennsylvania expedition in the 1920s and dates from the third millennium BC, when ancient Sumer was home to a set of powerful city-states. Go to the exhibition webpage.

RUNNING EXHIBITIONS ON ANCIENT EGYPT

Lectures

Go to Current Exhibitions list

For upcoming lectures on Egypt in the Berkeley area, visit the lecture listing for the North California chapter of ARCE (the American Research Center in Egypt).

Barely Visible but Very Real: Women's Religious Culture in Ancient Israel with Dr. Carol Meyers, Duke University

Monday, January 23rd, from 3:30-5:00pm
Room 6 beneath the campus chapel
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue
map available at http://bade.psr.edu/bade/campus.html

A reception will follow across the quad in the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology, where we will also celebrate the opening of the Bade Museum's new exhibit, "Making Cakes for the Queen of Heaven: Family Religion in Ancient Israel." This event is co-sponsored by the Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion; the Earl Lectures; UC Berkeley¹s Jewish Studies Program & the Dept. of Near Eastern Studies; and the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR).

Giving Back the Temple to King Hatshepsut, with Dr. Zbigniew E. Szafranski, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Cairo

7:30pm Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Boston University School of Education, Room 130
605 Commonwealth Ave., at Sherborn St.
Boston, MA  02215

Presented by the American Research Center in Egypt, New England Chapter. Call Kathryn Bard at 617-358-1662 for more information or write kbard@bu.edu.

SPECIAL FILM AND DISCUSSION: Robbing the Cradle of Civilization: The Looting of Iraq's Ancient Treasures

2:00pm Sunday May 1, 2005
Oriental Institute
Chicago, IL

Join McGuire Gibson, Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, for a special showing and discussion of an important new documentary film produced by Robert Benger for the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Robbing the Cradle of Civilization takes us into the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad to see the tragic losses from seven days of pillage. Part detective story, part historical thriller, part archaeological tragedy, this film is a dramatic depiction of Bender's premise that if the first casualty of war is truth, the second casualty is history. Professor Gibson will introduce the film and answer questions following the screening.

7:30pm, Thursday, November 3, 2005

Fowler Museum of Cultural History
UCLA
Box 951549
Los Angeles CA 90095-1549
Tel: 310/825-4361

An Ahmanson Lecture, sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).

Ancient Jewish Communities of Asia Minor with Dr. Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

8:00pm, Wednesday March 22, 2006
Jewish Community Center
6125 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD

For further information, please call Lynn Gittleson, at 301-348-3840 or go to www.jccgw.org.

Man, Woman, Earth and G-d: Creation or Not in Genesis 1-2 with Dr. Barry Gittlen, Baltimore Hebrew University

8:00pm, Wednesday April 26, 2006
Jewish Community Center
6125 Montrose Road
Rockville, MD

For further information, please call Lynn Gittleson, at 301-348-3840 or go to www.jccgw.org.

The Phoenicians and the Maccabees: Excavations at Tel Kadesh, Israel with Prof. Andrea Berlin, University of Minnesota

7:00 pm, Friday April 8, 2005
St. Louis Art Museum

Sponsored by the AIA (Archaeological Institute of America).

Mithradates I, the Parthian King and his Legacy for Iran with Dr. G.R.F. Assar

4:00pm Wednesday May 18, 2005
Bancroft Building, Room 200B
4 Bancroft Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Bancroft Building (BF) is located just north-east of Spadina Circle, on Bancroft Avenue (see map)
For more information contact: Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (m.tavakoli@utoronto.ca), phone: 416-978-5039

This lecture is sponsored by the Morteza Rastegar Family Endowment and Maclaren USA.

The Origins of Islamic Calligraphy

1:30pm Saturday October 1, 2005
Anacostia Museum
1901 Fort Place SE
Washington, DC

Mohamed Zakariya will give a presentation on Islamic calligraphy to feature a talk and slides on the origins, history, techniques and the main personalities of the art form. The talk will be followed with a question-and-answer session and a demonstration of the pen in action. Free. Reservations required; call (202) 633-4870.

Cult, continuity, and cultural identity at the Etruscan settlement of Poggio Colla (Florence) with Prof. Greg Warden, Southern Methodist University

8:00pm Monday October 10, 2005
Faculty Club
American University

Free and open to the public. Archaeological Institute of America's Cinelli Lecture.