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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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Three New Faculty Books Published
Congratulations to three Near Eastern Studies faculty members who have recently released books. Paul Delnero’s How to Do Things With Tears: Ritual Lamenting in Ancient Mesopotamia will be released this […]
Sanchita Balachandran Wins Iris Award
Congratulations to Sanchita Balachandran, who has been awarded the annual Iris Award for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar by the Bard Graduate Center. The Iris Awards honor outstanding individuals who have contributed to the study and […]
Michael Harrower’s findings featured on CNN
Congratulations to Michael Harrower! His excavations at Beta Samati in Ethiopia, an important Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite site, are featured on CNN.