The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce that Morganne Ottobre, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins, won ASOR’s student paper award for her paper on the bilingual […]
It is with tremendous sadness that we learned of the passing of Marc Blum on Tuesday, August 15th, 2023. Marc was a great and true friend to us in the […]
The Department of Near Eastern Studies is proud to announce the recent publication of the volume “Joueuses!” Co-directed by Dr. Marie-Lys Arnette, an Assistant Professor and the Alexander Badawy Chair […]
Michael Chapin, a PhD student in the Assyriology program, has been awarded a JHU Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship and will join the Society’s 2023-2024 cohort. During his time as […]
The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins presents a public lecture by Dr. Anne Goddeeris, a post-doctoral researcher and teaching assistant of Assyriology in the Department of Languages […]
Dr. Christian Leitz, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Institute of Egyptology at the University of Tübingen, presents a lecture titled “The Temple of the Lion-Goddess Repit in Athribis.” […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]