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This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. In this talk I will use the physical remains of the fortresses to compare the image and the reality of the Hasmoneans as builders. I will use results from my own excavations and studies of two fortresses in the Upper Galilee of northern Israel, which I identify as border posts built by king Alexander Jannaeus (r. 104–76 BCE).

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. The figure of the scribe is essential to any discussion of ancient Mesopotamian culture. Decades of careful research have allowed historians to paint a general portrait of the Mesopotamian scribe that can then be placed into historical narratives. But what about the individuals from whom this composite picture was created?

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. During the second half of the first millennium CE, societies across the globe were connected with each other through conquest, trade, intellectual exchange, and climatological phenomena. While some of these connections have reached world history textbooks under the umbrella term 'silk road networks', the actual impact, nuances, and the limits of global connectivity in Afro-Eurasia and outside of it are hard to grasp and even harder to teach.

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. How did hunters, pastoralists and small-scale farmers initiate the earliest forms of connectivity between coastal eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean world in the early-mid first millennium CE?

This lecture is the second in the ISAW Libraries events series for the 2024-2025 academic year. It will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Sabine Huebner shares some of her recent work on the ancient environment, exploring how the Nile's floods shaped Egypt’s agriculture, society, and political stability, highlighting the incredible adaptability of the Egyptian people to environmental changes over centuries. She will reveal how a blend of climate change, particularly in the Nile flooding, and political choices shaped agricultural output, tax policies, and overall economy of Egypt under Roman rule.

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Ancient Nubia has a rich history that spans over 4,000 years. This ancient African civilization was home to the city-state of Kerma which lasted an astounding 1,000 years, the Napatan Kings who conquered and ruled Egypt as the 25th Dynasty, and the Warrior Queens of the Meroitic Period who repelled the Roman invasion of Meroe.

ISAW's open house for prospective doctoral students will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. The event will include an opportunity to meet the ISAW faculty; an information session about our academic program; a Q&A session with current students; and sessions on archaeology, digital humanities, exhibitions, and the library at ISAW.

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. The lecture examines what it means to be Celtic in the contemporary world, and how modern Celts relate to peoples of the ancient past who were also called Celts.

This workshop will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Learn more about Islamic art and material culture during the early Medieval Period (711–1031 CE) through the ISAW exhibition "Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain."

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Cyprus, acknowledged as the island of copper already during ancient times, plays an integral part in discussions involving ancient Mediterranean connectivity.

This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding the Ancient World is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. This workshop offers a deep dive into the maritime trade networks of the Western Indian Ocean from the 1st to the 5th century CE. It will highlight how ancient societies and empires engaged in a complex web of maritime exchanges long before the modern era.

This lecture is the third in the ISAW Libraries events series for the 2024-2025 academic year. It will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Sarah Bond will share some of her research from her recently published book Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Yale University Press), exploring how Roman workers used strikes, boycotts, riots, and rebellion to get their voices—and their labor—acknowledged.