Institute for the Study of the Ancient World News
The latest news from ISAW
- Pleiades Quarterly Report Published
- Programmer Needed for Work on Papyrological Website
- Under the auspices of the Integrating Digital Papyrology project, we are seeking (in collaboration with the NYU Digital Library Technology Services team) a Java programmer to work with a multi-institutional team that will be enhancing http://papyri.info over the coming year. Relocation to New York is not required.
- "Before Pythagoras" exhibition extended
- New Book: Bagnall's Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
- New ISAW Newsletter Published
- Scholar Receives Award for Book on Early Hebrew
- Babylonian Mathematics Exhibition Features in the New York Times
- Late Roman Taxation: The East/West Divide
- Lecture: Pergamon and its Maritime Satellite Elaia
- Lectures Announced for Spring 2011
- Scholar Receives Award for Book on Roman Villas
- Ancient Tablets Reveal Mathematical Achievements of Ancient Babylonian Culture
- John Baines elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society
- The ISAW Senior Fellow and Professor of Egyptology in the University of Oxford was elected to Class 4: Humanities on 29 April 2011.
- Lecture: Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy - Science in Action (2 November 2010)
- Old Babylonian Mathematics Website Debuts
- Neugebauer Conference at ISAW: November 12-13, 2010
- Exhibition: Before Pythagoras - The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics
- Lecture: Cultural Dynamism of Astral Science in the Hellenistic Age (4 November 2010)
- Lecture: The Astronomical Book of Enoch (19 October 2010)
- Position Announcement: Assistant Professor of Early Chinese Art and Archaeology
- Applications Open for Visiting Research Scholars Program (2011)
- The Artemis Liturgical Papyrus
- Applications Open for Doctoral Program 2011-2012
- New Research Seminars for Spring 2011
- Amheida: Excavating a City in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt
- Job Opportunity: Programmer for Digital Papyrology Project
- Fall Events at ISAW
- Position Announcement: Professor of Ancient Western Asian Archaeology and History
- Position Announcement: Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic)
- A Review of The Lost World of Old Europe
- Dawn Gross Appointed to Library Faculty
- New Research Seminars
- New Faculty: Lillian Tseng
- New Faculty: Sören Stark
- Grant Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities
- ISAW Newsletter Published
- Exhibition: Nubia - Ancient Kingdoms of Africa
- ISAW announces its next exhibition, March 11 - June 12, 2011.
- Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa Exhibition Opens
- ISAW's latest exhibition, Nubia: Ancient Kingdoms of Africa, opens today.
- Jinyu Liu Receives Mellon Foundation Fellowship
- Jinyu Liu, associate professor of classical studies at DePauw University, and a 2007-2008 Visitng Research Scholar at ISAW, is one of the recipients of a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- ISAW Spring 2011 Newsletter Released
- New Faculty Appointments
- Pleiades Featured in Project Bamboo Demonstrator
- Project Bamboo has launched Places-Text, a feature demonstrator to illustrate how the possible service in Bamboo’s infrastructure could give researchers analytic tools to identify places mentioned in texts, including books, journal articles, and Web pages.
- VRS Annalisa Marzano promoted
- Annalisa Marzano, visiting research scholar 2010-11, promoted to Reader.
- Pleiades reports major additions of ancient geographic data
- Digital Epigraphy in Jakarta
- Grant Received for Linked Ancient World Data Institute
- Sabine Huebner Wins 5-year Heisenberg Grant
- Updates to papyri.info
- Free Photos of Edfu, Egypt
- The latest additions to ISAW's open-access Ancient World Image Bank.
- New Faculty Opening - Professor (Open Rank), Near Eastern Art & Arch., Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Periods
- Dura-Europos Exhibition Opens
- One Thousand Open Access Journals
- AWOL's List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies now lists one thousand titles.
- Spotlight On: Visiting Research Scholar Daniel Caner
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- ISAW Now Accepting Visiting Research Scholar Applications for Fall 2012
- Spotlight On: Visiting Research Scholar Sarah Laursen
- Open Access at ISAW
- Marianne Bergmann to Give ISAW's 5th Annual Leon Levy Lecture
- ISAW Newsletter 5 Released
- Deborah Klimburg-Salter to Give Lecture at ISAW
- Spotlight On: Visiting Research Scholar Alexander Dale
- All Roads Lead to (Ancient) Rome
- New book: an Egyptian tax register
- A newly-published tax register from the Egyptian village of Temseu Skordon gives a rare look into the economic and social structure of a rural community in the sixth century CE.
- New Book from VRS Alumnus Oleksandr Symonenko
- ISAW launches open-access journal
- The first article in ISAW Papers hit the web yesterday.
- Joining geography and imagery online
- Apply now for linked ancient world data institute
- ISAW Makes New Faculty Appointment
- A Hellenistic astrologer's board from Croatia
- ISAW Newsletter 6 Now Available
- New Book: From the Ptolemies to the Romans
- New exhibition on inflation opening March 30 at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- New Book from VRS Alum Anne Porter
- Wu Hung Elected to American Philosophical Society
- ISAW Senior Fellow Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and ISAW Advisory Committee member, has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society.
- 'Influential Neighbors' in the Wall Street Journal
- New Book from VRS Alum Mathieu Ossendrijver
