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Watch “Mysteries of the Kylix,” the Documentary Film on the Re-Creating Ancient Greek Ceramics Class

October 10, 2015

Re-creating Ancient Greek Ceramics, the spring 2015 undergraduate class designed by Sanchita Balachandran, was recently featured at Archaeology, the magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America. It is also the subject of an 18-minute film titled "Mysteries of the Kylix," which follows the semester-long archaeology experiment.

Prof. Jacob Lauinger Granted Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award

July 1, 2015

We are pleased to announce that Professor Jacob Lauinger has been granted a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award ($49,720), designed to support the promising research and creative endeavors of early career faculty. Prof. Lauinger is the only humanities professor in the 2015-2016 cohort to receive this award. His project is: “Cuneiform from Canaan: Lemmatization, Annotation, and Electronic Publication of […]

Sanchita Balachandran Awarded a Johns Hopkins Discovery Award

June 30, 2015

Sanchita Balachandran was awarded a Johns Hopkins Discovery Award in the amount of $99,875 to pursue interdisciplinary research with Patricia McGuiggan (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, JHU) and Matthew Hyleck (Baltimore Clayworks) to investigate the original manufacturing techniques of ancient Greek red figure pottery. The research project involves reverse engineering these ancient vessels by […]

Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Greek Pottery

May 10, 2015

This course in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences isn't a simple pottery class. For one, a documentary crew shadows the students as they work. [...]

Johns Hopkins Students Recreate an Iconic Ancient Greek Kylix

May 7, 2015

For the past 13 weeks, the students in Sanchita Balachandran's "Recreating Ancient Greek Ceramics" class have undertaken a distinctly different type of apprenticeship. Throughout this hands-on course in experiential archaeology, they have consulted the work of experts and practiced throwing clay pots.

In Memoriam: Hans Goedicke

March 1, 2015

Hans Goedicke, professor emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. He died of cancer on February 24, 2015. A native of Vienna, Dr. Goedicke earned his doctoral degree in 1949 from the University of Vienna and then worked as an assistant at the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna. From 1952 until 1957, he […]

Johns Hopkins Team Continues Excavation, Conservation Efforts at Ancient Egyptian Burial Site

January 25, 2015

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers and students, led by Betsy Bryan, a professor of Egyptian art and archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, has spent the past three weeks conducting field work at the Temple of the Goddess Mut dig site in Luxor, Egypt. [...]

Graduate Student Receives Fulbright Scholarship

May 15, 2014

Congratulations to Joshua Bowen, a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies researching Assyriology, who received a Fulbright grant to Germany. There Bowen will translate and contextualize more than 130 liturgical tablets from the ancient city of Kiš, which have resisted translation due to their fragmentary state and enigmatic Sumerian dialect. His work on this neglected Sumerian […]

Johns Hopkins Expert Discusses Ritual Public Drunkenness in Ancient Egypt

May 2, 2013

Earlier this week, Betsy Bryan, who specializes in the history, art, and archaeology of Egypt's New Kingdom (ca. 1600-1000 B.C.), participated in a lecture series under the auspices of the California Museum of Ancient Art, where she spoke about ancient Egyptian ritual celebrations that centered around public drunkenness and sex.

Studying Archaeological Histories From Space

January 10, 2013

Worldview-2 satellite image of an oasis near Yanqul, Oman

Michael Harrower and Ben Zaitchick of the Krieger School use satellites to study archaeological histories. Read more and see the image in Johns Hopkins Magazine.

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