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PhD Student Narges Bayani Studies "Petrography of Cultural Materials"
by Narges Bayani | 08/23/2018
Eager to learn more about the field of petrography, PhD Student Narges Bayani participated in an intensive course this summer at the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM) in University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia.
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Prof Antonis Kotsonas Appointed the AAIA 2018 Visiting Professor
by Antonis Kotsonas | 08/21/2018
Newly appointed Assistant Professor of Mediterranean History and Archaeology, Antonis Kotsonas is currently on a lecture and seminar tour of Australia as the 2018 Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA) Visiting Professor.
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Hellenistic-era Temple Found at ISAW's Excavation at Kınık Höyük
by lda5@nyu.edu | 08/03/2018
Professor and Site Director Lorenzo d'Alfonso reports on the team's recent findings at the excavation at Kınık Höyük, in the modern province of Niğde, Turkey.
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From the Field: The First Excavation Season at Gird-i Rostam, Kurdistan
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 08/01/2018
Professor Daniel T Potts directed the first excavation season at the site of Gird-i Rostam in the far eastern part of the Sulaimaniyah Governate in Kurdistan. The project is a collaboration between the Sulaimaniyah Directorate of Antiquities, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich) and ISAW.
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Soto Marin and Tsolakis Participate in the Summer Institute in Papyrology at Washington University
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 07/23/2018
Dr. Irene Soto Marin and PhD Candidate Georgios Tsolakis take part in this year's Summer Institute in Papyrology (SIP), organized by the American Society of Papyrologists, hosted at Washington University, and led by Prof. Roger Bagnall and Prof. Todd Hickey.
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ISAW Newsletter 21: Spring 2018
by mp4071@nyu.edu | 07/16/2018
Our newly released newsletter includes photos and updates from our Commencement celebration, community news, as well as a look at our upcoming Fall exhibition.
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Fall Exhibition Opens October 17th!
by reh390@nyu.edu | 06/26/2018
Opening this fall, "Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury" will feature objects from the Berthouville Treasure, the largest and best-preserved hoard of silver from the ancient world, along with other luxury objects from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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Graduate Student Amber Jacob Co-Organizes Copenhagen Conference on Ancient Egyptian and Greek Science
by Amber Jacob | 06/21/2018
Amber Jacob, who just completed her first year of graduate studies at ISAW, co-organized a conference in Copenhagen broadly on the topic of ancient Egyptian and Greek science, with a focus on the unpublished material in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection. The conference is part of a larger inter-university collaborative project, the Scientific Papyri from Ancient Egypt (SPAE).
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ISAW Papers and the Future of Scholarly Publishing
by fm75@nyu.edu | 06/19/2018
This spring, ISAW welcomed Fanny Mézard from the Université PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres) as an intern working with Professor Sebastian Heath on aspects of ISAW's digital publications.
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