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, […]
News & Announcements Archive
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 award from the Archaeological Institute of America
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 […]
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, […]
Joy McCorriston And Michael J. Harrower Receive the 2022 Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports
The Archaeological Institute of America has selected Landscape Histories of Hadramawt: The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998-2008 as the 2022 recipient of its Anna Marguerite McCann […]
Theodore Lewis receives 2021 Best Book Relating to the Hebrew Bible Award from the Biblical Archaeology Society
This is a monumental volume of over 1,100 pages, including over 200 pages of endnotes and 100 pages of bibliography. It contains a comprehensive discussion of most of the issues […]