Lecture

Christina Riggs, Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom When Howard Carter found the sealed entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, he secured the services of archaeological photographer Harry Burton to...

Geoff Emberling, Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan Ancient Nubia was one of Africa’s earliest centers of political authority, wealth, and military power. After the Nubian...

Florence D. Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University The smallest of the three Giza pyramids was built for Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty ruler, King Menkaure. In 1908 and 1910, Harvard University-Boston Museum of...

Free Public Lecture Laurel Bestock, Associate Professor of Archaeology and the Ancient World, Egyptology and Assyriology, and the History of Art and Architecture, Brown University Ancient Egyptian kings conquered Lower Nubia—today northern Sudan—nearly 4...

Free Public Lecture Yukinori Kawae, Research Fellow, Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Text, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University, Japan Current studies of pyramids in the Memphis area of ancient Egypt are being conducted from multiple...

Free Public Lecture Gregory Marouard, Research Associate in Egyptian Archaeology Oriental Institute, University of Chicago Located along the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea, Wadi al-Jarf is considered the oldest known harbor in the world. This exceptional 4...

Ulrike Steinert, Research Associate, Babylonian Medicine, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin The human body has not changed significantly during recorded history–we share sensory faculties, metabolism, sexuality, aging...

This program will be live streamed on Facebook. Miroslav Bárta, Professor, Czech Institute of Egyptology Abusir, the “Place of Osiris,” is a necropolis (burial site) near the Old Kingdom’s city of Memphis, known for its pyramids and sun temples. In this...

Salima Ikram, Visiting Professor, Yale University; Distinguished University Professor, Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology, The American University in Cairo The relationship between humans and animals is complex, with mutual dependencies...

Ramadan B. Hussein, Director, Saqqara Saite Tombs Project, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies (IANES), University of Tübingen, Germany The pyramids and tombs of Saqqara served as the cemetery for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. Recent...