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The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt

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Free Virtual Public Lecture Wendy Doyon, Historian of Archaeology and Modern Egypt Advance Registration Required. Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even the familiar illustrations from children’s books...

Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes

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Free Virtual Public Lecture Antonio J. Morales, Assistant Professor of Egyptology, University of Alcalá; Real Colegio Complutense Visiting Fellow 2022, Harvard University; Director, The Middle Kingdom Theban Project Advance Registration Required. One of...

On the Literacy and Education of Ancient Egyptian Artists

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Free Public Lecture Dimitri Laboury, Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art History, Archaeology, History and History of Religions; Research Director, Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research in Ancient Egyptian Art History and Archaeology...

Members Only: In Conversation with Gonzalo Giribet

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Members Only Event Gonzalo Giribet, Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology; Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology; Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Museum of Comparative...

Reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto’s Musical Instruments

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Virtual Public Lecture Susanne Gänsicke, Senior Conservator and ​​Head of Antiquities Conservation, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Advance Registration Required. Double reed pipes, known as auloi, were popular musical instruments in the ancient...

How Beer Made Kings in Early Egypt

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Virtual Public Lecture Matthew Douglas Adams, Director, Abydos Archaeology; Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Advance Registration Required. The remains of a 5000-year-old brewery found in the ancient Egyptian city of...

Black Is Queen: The Divinie Feminine in Kush

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Solange Ashby, Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient Studies, Barnard College The prominence of powerful goddesses and queens in the Nubian Kingdom of Kush (now Northern Sudan) highlights the unusually high status of women in this ancient...