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Visiting Research Scholar Spotlight: Martin Worthington
by mw179@nyu.edu | 01/17/2018
Visiting Research Scholar Martin Worthington takes on the "Gilgamesh Flood Story" and Babylonian, Assyrian and Sumerian poetry. Join him on February 27th for a viewing of a short film of the folk-tale "The Poor Man of Nippur," acted out by Assyriology students in the original Babylonian.
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"Restoring the Minoans" Reviewed in the New York Times
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 12/22/2017
Jason Farago reviews ISAW's exhibition in his review "Remaking Ancient Greece, With Paints or Pixels."
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Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri Launched
by Tom Elliott | 12/20/2017
In November, ISAW submitted a final report to the National Endowment for the Humanities on the "Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri" project (DCLP). This report marked the end of a four-year-long collaborative initiative to launch the creation of a comprehensive, searchable digital collection of literary and subliterary texts surviving on papyrus and similar materials from the area of ancient Egypt and environs.
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ISAW Hosts Conference on Digital Publication in Mediterranean Archaeology
by Patrick J. Burns | 12/07/2017
On October 20, 2017 the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, in partnership with the Archaeological Institute of America, hosted a one-day conference on the state of archaeological data publication called Digital Publication in Mediterranean Archaeology: Current Practice and Common Goals.
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The Gallery Store is Open for the Holidays!
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 12/01/2017
The catalogue and accompanying merchandise for the exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans" is available in our Gallery Store.
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Professor Dan Potts Invited as a Consulting Editor for the Encyclopaedia Iranica
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 11/29/2017
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History Dan Potts was invited to be a consulting editor for the Encyclopaedia Iranica based at Columbia University.
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"Restoring the Minoans" in the Wall Street Journal
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 11/27/2017
Edward Rothstein of the WSJ reviewed ISAW's current exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans."
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Mary Beard Discusses "Restoring the Minoans" in The Times Literary Supplement
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 11/06/2017
The lecturer at our Eleventh Annual Leon Levy Lecture, Mary Beard, reviews the exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans."
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The Brooklyn Rail Reviews "Restoring the Minoans"
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 11/03/2017
Ann McCoy at the Brooklyn Rail reviewed our latest exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans."
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