Join 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 […]

Mohamed 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 […]

Antonis 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 […]

Reed Goodman, ISAW Visiting Assistant Professor This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required at THIS LINK. New research in southern Iraq at the ancient city of Lagash, modern Tell al-Hiba, indicates that systemic flooding contributed to the site's demise at the end of Sumer's Early Dynastic period, circa 2,350 BCE. We […]

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies presents the Rose-Marie Lewent Conference Feeding Cities: Antiquity to the Middle Ages Thursday-Friday, April 4-5, 2024 @ 12:00-2:30pm via Zoom This virtual event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Please register using the links below. Ancient and medieval cities were home to many people […]