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All upcoming Archaeology programs

All upcoming Archaeology programs

Programs 1 to 5 of 5
Saturday, February 22, 2025 - 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET

Visit the world of ancient Egypt during a day at the Walters Art Museum with Egyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson. A guided tour explores the museum’s collection of statuary, reliefs, stelae (commemorative stone slabs), funerary objects, jewelry, and objects from daily life that date from prehistoric to Roman Egypt. Williamson even gives a lesson on the basic hieroglyphic offering formula, which appears on memorial statuary and is designed to provide the dead with essential goods in the afterlife. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)


Wednesday, March 19, 2025 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET

What can tiny bits of burned seeds, bones, and even invisible residues on cups and plates tell us about the food and cooking of the past? Archaeologists combine paleontology, geochemistry, medicine, art history, and dozens of experiments to understand what our ancestors ate by their campfires, in their kitchens, and at their banquet tables. Archaeologist Katherine Moore serves up the latest insights on nutritional anthropology.


Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. ET

Cuneiform, the wedge-shaped script of ancient Mesopotamia, had preserved the stories, science, and secrets of civilizations for millennia—only to have its meaning lost to history. Journalist Joshua Hammer delves into the story of how three unlikely Victorian adventurers unlocked the secrets of cuneiform, illuminating the forgotten voices of the ancient world and offering a glimpse into humanity’s earliest recorded past.


Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET

For approximately five centuries during the second millennium B.C.E., the Egyptian city of Thebes served as the backdrop for the construction of a bewildering array of religious temples, memorial complexes, and royal tombs. Historian Justin M. Jacobs introduces the chief cultural, religious, and political themes of the monuments of ancient Thebes: the Karnak and Luxor temples of the East Bank, the memorial temples of the West Bank, and the necropolis in the Valley of the Kings.


Saturday, May 3, 2025 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET

Created by the “heretic” Pharaoh Akhenaten as the center of the monotheistic cult of worship of a sun god called the Aten, the ancient city of Tell el-Amarna is one of the most exciting archaeological sites in the world. Its extraordinary level of preservation provides an unmatched window into the population’s daily life and religious practices. Egyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson, a senior member of the Tell el-Amarna archaeological team, examines the latest discoveries at the site.