On February 6, 2023, southern Turkey and northwestern Syria were devastated by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which has claimed the lives of more than 20,000 people and destroyed multiple towns, […]
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Sanchita Balachandran Featured on Podcast, “How were people mummified?”
Sanchita Balachandran, Associate Director of the Archaeological Museum, is featured on the kids’ science podcast Brains On in a discussion about how people in ancient Egypt were mummified. The podcast […]
Paul Delnero Quoted in The New Yorker
Assyriology professor Paul Delnero was recently quoted in an article published by The New Yorker, an American weekly magazine that has a circulation of over one million people. The article, […]
Glenn Schwartz Receives Prestigious Award at ASOR 2022
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce that Prof. Glenn M. Schwartz has received the P. E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award at the American Schools of Overseas […]
Protective Childbirth Tattoos on Ancient Egyptian Mummies and Figurines
Johns Hopkins Egyptologist Marie-Lys Arnette co-published (with Anne Austin) an article titled “On Ink and Clay: Tattooed Mummified Human Remains and Female Figurines from Deir el-Medina” in last month’s edition […]
Marie-Lys Arnette joins the department as Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
We are happy to announce that Marie-Lys Arnette will be joining our Department as Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology. She will assume her position on July 1, 2022. […]
Joy McCorriston and Michael J. Harrower receive The Archaeological Institute of America’s Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports
From the announcement: The Archaeological Institute of America would like to congratulate the following individuals, projects, and publications for their excellent work. They will be formally recognized at the AIA […]
Glenn Schwartz’s excavations at Umm el-Marra yield evidence of elite kunga equids, oldest human-engineered hybrids
Skeletons of over 30 equids found inside their own tombs at Umm el-Marra have been identified as the elite kunga equids referred to in third-millennium Syrian and Mesopotamian texts. DNA analysis […]
Richard Jasnow publishes two books in 2021
Richard Jasnow has recently published two books in 2021. In August, The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth II, co-authored with Karl-Theodor Zauzich and in September, On the Path to the […]
Art installation memorializes the thousands of lives lost at the U.S.-Mexico border
The 3,200 toe tags of Hostile Terrain 94 aim to “rehumanize” migrants who have died while crossing the Sonoran Desert Sanchita Balachandran, associate director of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, […]