Founded in 1883, the Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies was the first in the United States to offer a PhD in the field. The department offers programs of study leading to the PhD in four areas: Assyriology, Egyptology, Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Studies, and Near Eastern Archaeology/Near Eastern Art.
Lecture with Dr. Liat Naeh on May 2
Dr. Liat Naeh, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will present, "Rebuilding the Lost Ivory Throne: New Evidence from the Southern Levant in the 2nd Millennium BCE" on Thursday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Gilman 130G (Near Eastern Studies Seminar Room). The event is presented by the departments of Near Eastern Studies and History of Art.