Summer Scholarship: Karen Rubinson on East Asian Archaeology

In June, I participated in the 6^th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, held in Ulanbaatar, Mongolia.  Three hundred scholars gave papers in 25 sessions; my presentation, “On the Road Again: Chinese Mirrors in Afghanistan,” ...

Summer Scholarship: Dan Potts on Elam

Summers are often devoted to fieldwork but in some cases writing is on the agenda. Last year I was persuaded by Asya Graf, archaeology editor at Cambridge University Press, to undertake a revised edition of The Archaeology of Elam, a book ...

News: Save the Date! New Exhibition Opens October 8

Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE. For the next 300 years, under the rule of the Macedonian Ptolemies, Greek and Egyptian cultures coexisted, with the royal house defined by intrigue, intermarriage, and a skillful manipulation of Greek and Egyptian iconographic motifs for political purposes. ISAW’s fall exhibition illuminates this royal family’s canny use of cultural tropes to consolidate power and inspire loyalty among a mixed population. Come to ISAW’s galleries and discover royal portraits both large and small, luxury goods, and a wonderful sampling of papyri that document the daily lives of individuals who lived during this complex period in Egyptian history. When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra examines the interactions between Greek and Egyptian cultures during the nearly 300-year period when Egypt was under Greek rule. With some 150 objects, the exhibition reveals the many and ...

News: Amheida excavations find new evidence on Cambyses' army

Excavations at Amheida, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt, in 2014 found new evidence on the rebel king Petubastis III suggesting that the mysterious disappearance of Cambyses' Persian army in the desert may have been linked to his rebellion. The 2014 excavations of New York University at Amheida, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt, uncovered evidence for a temple building, or part of a temple building, erected in the name of the king Petubastis III. This ...

Summer Fieldwork: Robert Hoyland on Inscriptions in the Negev

The land of ancient Palestine is littered with inscriptions of remarkably diverse content and written in a broad range of languages.  There have been initiatives in the past that concentrated on inscriptions of a certain genre or in a specific language, but the ongoing  ...

News: VRS Alum Rita Lucarelli Appointed Assistant Professor of Egyptology at University of California, Berkeley

ISAW is pleased to announce that Rita Lucarelli, a visiting research scholar at ISAW in 2011-12, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Egyptology in the Near Eastern Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Lucarelli earned her PhD from ...

Request for Proposal: Website Upgrade

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University seeks proposals for upgrading the design and functionality of its primary website. This RFP envisions work to attain three complementary goals: ...

News: Kristen Soule Represents ISAW in Race

On June 5th, ISAW's Kristen Soule joined "Team NYU" in representing the Institute and the University in the second night of the 38th annual JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge®. Held in New York's Central Park, ...

News: ISAW Senior Fellow Paul Zanker Lecturing at Yale University Art Gallery - May 29, 2014

Paul Zanker, Emeritus Professor of the History of Ancient Art at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and ISAW Senior Fellow, will be giving the Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture at the Yale University Art Gallery on Thursday, May ...

News: ISAW Announces 2014-15 Visiting Scholars

News: Nicholas Sims-Williams Elected to the American Philosophical Society

by dd102@nyu.edu — Apr 29, 2014

Nicholas Sims-Williams, an ISAW Senior Fellow, was elected last week to membership in the American Philosophical Society (APS). Sims-Williams is Professorial Researcher of Iranian and Central Asian Studies at SOAS (University of London) and has made fundamental contributions ...