# Lecture Videos ![Lecture audience wearing 3D Glasses](/sites/g/files/omnuum3086/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/semitic/files/sm.lecture.jpg?itok=8cMSDlQ7) The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East offers a free annual lecture series open to the public. This series showcases new research presented by world-renowned scholars of the ancient world. Below you will find several of our most recent lectures, presented in full and unedited. Check out our [calendar ](/calendar/upcoming)to find out about upcoming lectures. ## Lecture Videos Open all sections Close all sections ### "The Enigmatic Treasure of a Nubian Queen" - Denise M. Doxey - 4/14/26 expand\_more ### " The Future of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife" - Rune Nyord - 3/11/26 expand\_more ### "Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure" - Florence Dunn Friedman - 11/12/25 expand\_more ### " Mavericks: Three Visionary Pharaohs of Egypt" - Lawrence M. Berman - 10/15/25 expand\_more ### "Virtual Egypt: 3D Teaching with Museum Collections" - Rita Lucarelli - 9/17/25 expand\_more ### "The Daily Lives of Ancient Egyptian Artists" - Hana Navratilova - 4/23/25 expand\_more ### "Forever Is Now: Contemporary Art at the Pyramids of Giza" - Nadine Abdel Ghaffar - 11/13/24 expand\_more ### "Rediscovering Sculptures of King Menkaure at the Giza Pyramids" - Mark Lehner - 10/16/24 expand\_more ### "Uncovering Stars in an Egyptian Temple: The New Sky over Esna" - Christian Leitz - 9/18/24 expand\_more ### "How Egyptologist George Reisner went Walking Among Pharaohs" - Peter Der Manuelian - 5/5/24 expand\_more ### "The Mummies of Aswan: The Missing Link" - Patrizia Piacentini - 11/2/23 expand\_more ### "The Living Dead in Ancient Egypt" - Julia Troche - 10/11/23 expand\_more ### "Finding the God Osiris: Latest Excavations at Abusir and Saqqara" - Miroslav Bárta - 9/28/23 expand\_more ### "The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt" - Wendy Doyon - 4/21/2023 expand\_more ### "Divine Mortals: Royal Ancestor Worship in Deir el-Medina" - Yasmin El Shazly - 4/18/23 expand\_more ### "The “Mummy Portraits” of Roman Egypt: Status, Ethnicity, and Magic" - Lorelei H. Corcoran - 10/6/22 expand\_more ### "Exploring Egypt’s Middle Kingdom at the Site of Ancient Thebes" - Antonio J. Morales -3/31/22 expand\_more ### "On the Literacy and Education of Ancient Egyptian Artists" - Dimitri Laboury - 2/24/22 expand\_more ### "Reconstructing Queen Amanishakheto’s Musical Instruments" - Susanne Gänsicke - 11/18/21 expand\_more ### "How Beer Made Kings in Early Egypt" - Matthew Douglas Adams - 10/12/21 expand\_more ### "Performance and Ritual in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Practice" - Mariam Ayad - 4/29/21 expand\_more ### "Black Is Queen: The Divine Feminine in Kush" - Solange Ashby - 3/25/21 expand\_more ### "Decolonizing Meresankh at Giza" - Peter Der Manuelian - 3/30/21 expand\_more ### "Apprenticeship in Ancient Egypt" - Willeke Wendrich - 9/16/20 expand\_more ### "The Khufu Boat" - Bob Brier - 3/05/20 expand\_more ### "Ancient Egyptian Culture and Its Continuity in Modern Egypt" - Fayza Haikal - 2/13/20 expand\_more ### "Human Sacrifice and Power in the Kerma Kingdom" - Elizabeth Minor - 11/19/19 expand\_more ### "Breaking the Noses on Egyptian Statues" - Edward Bleiberg - 9/26/19 expand\_more ### "The Making of a Theban Tomb Chapel" - Melinda Hartwig - 4/3/19 expand\_more ### "Magic and Demonology in Ancient Egypt" - Rita Lucarelli - 2/21/19 expand\_more ### "Giza Is My Classroom" - Peter Der Manuelian expand\_more ### "Photographing Tutankhamun: How the Camera Helped Create “King Tut"" - Christina Riggs - 11/7/18 expand\_more ### "Memories of the Kings and Queens of Kush: Archaeology and Heritage at El Kurru" - Geoff Emberling - 10/18/18 expand\_more ### "Creating a King for Eternity" - Florence D. Friedman - 09/25/18 expand\_more ### "Analyzing Egyptian Pyramids in the Digital Age" - Yukinori Kawae - 04/05/18 expand\_more ### "Ancient Egypt in Contemporary Africa: New Excavations at the Island Fortress of Uronarti" - Laurel Bestock - 03/19/18 expand\_more ### "New Discoveries at Wadi al-Jarf" - Gregory Marouard - 02/12/18 expand\_more ### "Egypt’s Old Kingdom: The Latest Discoveries at Abusir South" - Miroslav Bárta - 11/14/17 expand\_more ### "Divine Creatures Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt" - Salima Ikram - 10/12/17 expand\_more ### "Inside the Tombs of Saqqara: The Ancient Egyptian Burial Site Revealed" - Ramadan B. Hussein - 09/28/17 expand\_more ### "Cracking Bones, Gnawing Flesh, and Pondering Hearts" - Ulrike Steinert - 09/19/2017 expand\_more ### "Anxieties about Race in Egyptology and Egyptomania" - Donald Reid - 04/06/17 expand\_more ### "W. E. B. Du Bois, Education, and Archaeology in Egypt" by Vanessa Davies - 03/28/17 expand\_more ### "Epic of Gilgamesh" - Andrew George - 09/28/16 expand\_more ### "Mystery Cults and Plagues in Egypt" - Francesco Tiradritti - 04/19/16 expand\_more ### "Collectors and Dealers: The Trade of Egyptian Antiquities" - Kim Ryholt - 04/21/15 expand\_more ### "Breaking Iconoclasm" (Standing Committee on Archaeology Special Roundtable) - 12/02/15 expand\_more ### "David Gordon Lyon and the Harvard Semitic Museum" - Peter Der Manuelian, Joseph A. Greene, and Adam Aja - 12/04/14 expand\_more ### "Wine in the Ancient Near East" - Andrew Koh and Joseph A. Greene - 10/23/14 expand\_more ### "A Short History of the Ten Commandments" - Michael Coogan - 04/22/14 expand\_more ### "The Discovery of Pharaoh Senebkay" - Josef Wegner - 03/31/14 expand\_more ### "The Sun Temple of Nefertiti" - Jacquelyn Williamson - 02/04/14 expand\_more ### "Joseph, Potiphar's Wife, and the Jewish Colony in Egypt" - Bernd U. Schipper - 12/03/13 expand\_more ### "Egyptomania" - Bob Brier - 11/19/13 expand\_more ### "Discovering Nefertiti's Artist" - Alain Zivie - 10/17/13 expand\_more ### "Memories of the Kings and Queens of Kush expand\_more