Upcoming Workshops

04/07/2025 05:30 PM Online
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Expanding the Ancient World Workshop:

Exploring the Minoans and the Mycenaeans

Manolis Mavromatis

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. Before the Classical period, where Athens and Sparta dominate as central figures in Ancient Greek history, two earlier civilizations have sparked significant debate regarding their identity and acknowledgment. The first is the Minoan civilization, based on Crete and named by Sir Arthur Evans after the mythical King Minos. The second is the Mycenaean civilization, identified as the first recognized Greek civilization.
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05/07/2025 05:30 PM Online
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Expanding the Ancient World Workshop:

From Sheep to Sign: Inventing Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia

Abigail Hoskins

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. Writing is such an integral part of our everyday lives that it is difficult to imagine how we could live without it. But just like so many of the other technologies that have become essential to us, writing had to be invented. Scholars studying the ancient past have discovered that writing was invented independently in four different places: in Mesopotamia (in modern-day Iraq) around 3300-3200 BCE; in ancient Egypt around 3200 BCE; in ancient China around 1200 BCE; and in ancient Mesoamerica (in modern-day Mexico) around 1000 BCE. In this workshop, we will focus on the invention of writing in Mesopotamia.
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