New Research and Discoveries at Aphrodisias in 2023
James B. Duke House 1 E 78th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us to hear Roland R. R. Smith speak about the most recent work carried out by NYU-IFA at Aphrodisias in southwest Turkey, in collaboration with Oxford University. Aphrodisias is one of the most important sites of the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, with superbly preserved public buildings and monuments. Marble-carving was a noted […]
The Kingdom of Kush: Research on an Early State Society in Africa
ISAW Lecture HallMohamed Bashir, ISAW Visiting Research Scholar This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. The kingdom of Kush was a powerful state in the Nile Valley that existed from around 1000 BC. - 350 AD. This kingdom consisted of two phases, the Naptian and the Meroitic phase. In the […]
New Discoveries at Lyktos: “The Most Ancient City in Crete, and the Source of the Bravest Men” (Polybius 4.54)
ISAW Lecture HallAntonis Kotsonas, ISAW This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. Since 2021, a team from ISAW/NYU has been involved in archaeological fieldwork at the Greek and Roman city Lyktos in central Crete, Greece. Celebrated by Homer, considered as the birthplace of god Zeus by Hesiod, and identified as […]