Institute for the Study of the Ancient World https://isaw.nyu.edu Recent Fieldwork at Gordion, Royal City of Midas https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/gordion 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event The Urban Landscape of the Early Christians: New Magnetometry and Georadar Surveys in the Harbor District of Roman Imperial Ephesos https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/urban-landscape 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Exhibition Lecture: Revisiting the Great North Cave at Xiangtangshan, Cultural and Religious Interactions https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/great-north-cave 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event The Reception of Antiquity: China and Europe https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/china-and-europe 2016-02-03T23:07:05Z Event New Questions about Old Gold: In Search of the First Chinese Goldsmiths https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/old-gold 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event The Scythians in Tbilisi: Recent Excavations at Treligorebi https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/scythians-in-tbilisi 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Cities in Steppes - Turks, Uyghurs and Mongols in the Orkhon Valley https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/cities-in-steppes 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Archaeology and City Planning in the Phrygian City at Kerkenes Dağ, Turkey https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/kerkenes-dag 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Traveling, in Theory: Movement as Metaphor in the Ancient Greek Symposium https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/traveling-in-theory 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Exhibition Lecture: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in the West: Charles Lang Freer and the Xiangtangshan Cave Chapels https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/freer 2016-02-03T23:04:35Z Event Canceled: Exploring the Significance of a Ninth Century Sinai Palimpsest https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/sinai-palimpsest 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Gods, Humans, and Rulers: Religion and Empire in Early China https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/leon-levy-sixth 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Did the Ancient Mysteries Influence Early Christianity? https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/ancient-mysteries 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Recent Fieldwork in the Upper Zerafshan Valley (Tadjikistan) by the Pendjikent Mission of the State Hermitage. Main results of the first three seasons (2010-2012) in Hisorak (Medieval Martshkat) https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/hisorak 2016-02-03T23:07:05Z Event Exhibition Lecture: Xiangtangshan: Northern Qi Architecture and Decoration https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/architecture-and-decoration 2016-02-03T23:07:05Z Event Landscape and Urban Planning in Second Millennium BC Qatna: Twelve Years of Italian Archaeological Research at Mishrifeh, Inner Syria https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/qatna 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Signs of Inflation https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/signs-of-inflation 2016-02-03T23:07:05Z Event Nemea and the Pan-Hellenic Sanctuary of Zeus https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/nemea 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Supplying Wine for the Army in Early Roman Egypt https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/supplying-wine 2016-02-03T23:04:34Z Event Archaeological Sites of the Xiongnu: New Discoveries in Russia https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/xiognu 2016-02-03T23:07:05Z Event Egypt Dances https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/copy_of_arce-lecture-1 2016-02-03T21:21:10Z Event UPDATED: The Reinvention of Iran: The Sasanians and the Huns, ca 350 – 557 CE https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/vrs-lecture-payne 2016-02-03T21:21:10Z Event “Big Prehistory” and the Mashup of Inner Asian Civilization https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/vrs-lecture-frachetti 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event CANCELED - Myth, Politics, and Biography in Ancient Egypt https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/arce-lecture-2-1 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Archaeological Landscapes of Highland and Steppe Zones in Naxçivan, Azerbaijan https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/vrs-lecture-hammer 2016-02-06T11:55:50Z Event The Eurasian Spread of Tin-Bronze Metallurgy with Special Reference to Prehistoric Thailand https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/aia-lecture-pigott 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Kınık Höyük, a new excavation in Southern Cappadocia, Turkey https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/ats-lecture-dalfonso 2016-02-06T11:54:41Z Event Trade, Migration, and Acculturation: China and the Prehistoric Silk Routes https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/vrs-lecture-zhang 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Excavating a Provincial Capital of the Assyrian Empire: The Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/macginnis-lecture 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Maltese Megalithic Mysteries https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/maltese-megalithic-mysteries 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Transport Amphorae and Mediterranean Trade 400-250 BCE: A View From Cyrenaica, Libya https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/guest-lecture-goransson 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Fourth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series - The Sovereign Assemblage: Sense, Sensibility, and Sentiment in the Bronze Age Caucasus https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/rostovtzeff-lecture-1 This first lecture sets the terms for an inquiry into the politics of things by focusing our attention on how assemblages are fundamental to principles and practices of sovereignty. 2016-02-03T22:03:31Z Event Greek Papyri as a Linguistic Resource https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/vrs-lecture-vierros 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Ancient and Modern Perspectives on Historiography in Mesopotamia https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/ancient-and-modern-perspectives-on-historiography-in-mesopotamia 2016-02-03T21:23:18Z Event Fourth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series - The Sovereign Assemblage: Sense, Sensibility, and Sentiment in the Bronze Age Caucasus https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/rostovtzeff-lecture-2 The second lecture in the series turns to the South Caucasus during the Early Bronze Age in order to outline the schematics of the first of the three machines critical to the manufacture of sovereignty: the “civilization machine”. 2016-02-03T22:02:13Z Event Archaeoastronomy in Malta: Exploring the Connections Between Maltese Temples and Their Skies https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/archaeoastronomy-in-malta-exploring-the-connections-between-maltese-temples-and-their-skies 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Fourth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series - The Sovereign Assemblage: Sense, Sensibility, and Sentiment in the Bronze Age Caucasus https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/the-soverign-assemblage-sense-sensibility-and-sentiment-in-the-bronze-age-the-war-machine-in-the-middle-bronze-age This third lecture in the series will examine how the civilization machine broke down toward the end of the Early Bronze Age, only to be reconfigured and redeployed in the Middle Bronze Age in tandem with a fearsome new assemblage: the war machine. 2016-02-03T21:29:24Z Event “For ʾĪlmuquh and for Sabaʾ”: Warfare, Religion, and Ideology in the Res Gestae of Karibʾīl Watar bin Dhamarʿalī https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/201cfor-ilmuquh-and-for-saba-201d-warfare-religion-and-ideology-in-the-res-gestae-of-karib-il-watar-bin-dhamarali 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event The Archaeology of Sasanian Politics https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/archaeology-of-sasanian-politics 2015-03-01T01:32:35Z Event Fourth Annual M.I. Rostovtzeff Lecture Series - The Sovereign Assemblage: Sense, Sensibility, and Sentiment in the Bronze Age Caucasus https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/the-sovereign-assemblage-sense-sensibility-and-sentiment-in-the-bronze-age-the-political-machine-in-the-late-bronze-age The last lecture of the series explores the production of the final condition of sovereignty in the South Caucasus by a novel apparatus of regulation: the political machine. 2016-02-03T21:34:40Z Event Toiletries from Burials of Early China and Neighboring Cultures https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/grooming-and-adornment-in-early-china-and-neighboring-cultures 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event Centre and Periphery in the Sasanian Empire: Archaeological Evidence for Material Culture in Antiquity https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/centre-and-periphery-in-the-sasanian-empire-archaeological-evidence-for-material-culture-in-antiquity 2016-02-03T21:21:09Z Event Life on the Fringe: Reconstructing the Lives of the Ancient Peoples of the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/life-on-the-fringe-reconstructing-the-lives-of-the-ancient-peoples-of-the-dakhleh-oasis-egypt 2016-02-03T21:20:23Z Event The Zoology of Kingship: From Alexander the Great to the Epigoni (336 - c. 250 BC) https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/the-zoology-of-kingship-from-alexander-the-great-to-the-epigoni-336-c-250-bc 2016-02-03T21:21:09Z Event Everything is Forever Until It Is No More https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/everything-is-forever-until-it-is-no-more 2016-02-03T21:21:09Z Event Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage: A Conference in Honor of Omara Khan Masoudi https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/afghanistans-cultural-heritage-a-conference-in-honor-of-omara-khan-masoudi-1 2016-02-03T21:23:18Z Event Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/archive/2012/ancient-nubia-african-kingdoms-on-the-nile 2016-02-03T21:21:09Z Event