Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

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.

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.

The catalogue and accompanying merchandise for the exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans" is available in our Gallery Store.

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.

Edward Rothstein of the WSJ reviewed ISAW's current exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans."

The lecturer at our Eleventh Annual Leon Levy Lecture, Mary Beard, reviews the exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans."

Ann McCoy at the Brooklyn Rail reviewed our latest exhibition "Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans."

ISAW doctoral student David Danzig recently received an honorable mention for the 2017 NYC Digital Humanities Graduate Student Project Award. David's project, entitled "Ethnic Dynamics in Migratory Scenarios of the Ancient Near East: Collection and Analysis of Data on Inter-Ethnic Contact Drawn from Everyday Texts," explores questions of ethnic identity, assimilation, and entrenchment in the context of migration in societies of the ancient Near East. As part of this research, he will create a database of over 1,500 cuneiform texts and associated metadata for the purpose of integrating analyses based on querying of the dataset and those arrived at by traditional philological-historical approaches.

Associate Professor of West Asian Archaeology and History Lorenzo d'Alfonso provides an update on the findings at this year's excavation at Kınık Höyük, Turkey.