The American Academy of Religion is pleased to announce the 2021 recipients of the Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion, the Best First Book in the History of […]
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Sanchita Balachandran named Supervisor of the Year 2021
From Homewood Student Affairs: Supervisors provide far more than basic training. They serve as mentors who build skills and advance technical knowledge, they support student career aspirations and foster professionalism, […]
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Alphabetic writing may have begun 500 years earlier than believed
Inside Professor Glenn Schwatz’s mission to rewrite the history of writing.
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Betsy Bryan part of mission unearthing a 3,000 year old city in Egypt
A 3,000-year-old "lost golden city" has been unearthed in the southern city of Luxor, a discovery that could be the most significant find in Egypt since the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamen, the archaeological mission said Thursday in a statement.
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The Amarna Letters on Oracc
Jacob Lauinger and Tyler Yoder are pleased to announce the release of an initial set of 218 fully-lemmatized Amarna letters on Oracc. The goal of the project is to make […]
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Tom Lippincott, Sharon Achinstein, and Jacob Lauinger receive 2021 IDIES Seed Funding Award
Their project, “An unsupervised neural framework for multi-modal literary and historical scholarship” has received a 2021 IDIES Seed Funding award. Tom Lippincott in Computer Science is the project’s Principal Investigator […]
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Now on YouTube – Finding an Ancient Town: Discovery and Excavation of Beta Samati (Ethiopia)
How does one find an ancient town? What do archaeologists look for? How do they know where to dig? How do they interpret what they find? In a YouTube presentation […]
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Meg Swaney lecture presented by the Mellon Foundation
April 30, 2021 @ 4:00pm The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will present Meg Swaney’s lecture, “Who am I? Remembering the Dead Through Facial Reconstruction,” for the Humanities for All Initiative. […]
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Dr. Marian Feldman featured in TARII and the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq’s Embassy Lecture Series
Dr. Marian Feldman will present “King of the Four Quarters of the World: The Art and Architecture of Assyrian Kingship” as part of the Embassy Lecture Series next week. The […]
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Maarten Praet lecture presented by Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will present Maarten Praet’s lecture, “A Life in Ruins: How to Reconstruct an Ancient Egyptian Monument,” for the Humanities for All Initiative. Mellon Foundation’s “Humanities […]