News & Announcements Archive

Marie-Lys Arnette joins the department as Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

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, […]

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 […]

Theodore Lewis receives 2021 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies

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 […]

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, […]

Alphabetic writing may have begun 500 years earlier than believed

Inside Professor Glenn Schwatz’s mission to rewrite the history of writing.