Lecture

Speaker: Lorelei H. Corcoran, Professor of Art History; Director, Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology University of Memphis Advance registration required for both virtual and in-person In ancient Egypt, one of the final steps in the mummification...

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...

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...

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 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...

Virtual Membership Event Advance Registration Required. Deadline for registration is Friday, October 15. HMSC members are invited to join us in welcoming our new Executive Director, Brenda Tindal. During this discussion, you will learn about Ms. Tindal's...

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...

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...

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...

Special Event Presented by the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University Methodologies in Egyptology and Mesopotamian Studies Workshop Dr. Laura Taronas, Harvard University The campaign to erase the names and images of some...