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Conference Recap: ISAW at AIA/SCS 2026
Several members of the ISAW research community traveled to San Francisco for the annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) which took place this week at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square from January 7–10. This post provides a summary of those contributions to this year’s meeting.
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From Protective Colophons to RFID Tags: A Brief History of Library Security
Security has been a matter of primary concern since the beginnings of libraries. Having collected and assembled knowledge for preservation, how do you ensure the safety of the carriers of that knowledge?
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ISAW announces the digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV)
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press are pleased to announce the open access digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV) by Nicola Aravecchia. Originally published in print in 2018, this new digital edition faithfully reproduces the print edition while giving scholars and the general public the affordances of a truly digital edition. The book offers a systematic record and interpretation of the archaeological evidence from the excavations at ‘Ain el-Gedida, a fourth-century rural settlement in Egypt's Dakleh Oasis, important for the study of early Egyptian Christianity.
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ISAW Library Internship Report: Expanding a Linguistic Dataset of Women-authored Latin
A guest post by Margaret Ratzan, Willa Romer-Mack, and Lily Hegener, with an introduction by Associate Research Scholar Patrick J. Burns, reporting on Spring 2025 internships in the ISAW Library working on the Representing Women Authorship in the Latin Treebanks (RWALT) project.
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ISAW Library hosts Candida Moss
Prof. Candida Moss spoke about her research into enslaved labor and the creation, transmission, and preservation of biblical literature over the Roman period to a packed room at ISAW on Oct. 7, 2025.
