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Daniela Wolin
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Pénélope Riboud
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Allison Miller
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Ursula Brosseder
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Stephanie Rost
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J. Andrew Dufton
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Ethan Harkness
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David Kertai
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Babylonians and Elamites in the Zagros
The comparison drawn in much of the scholarly and popular literature between the Mesopotamian alluvium and the Iranian plateau, coupled with the imposing ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
What Do Barbarians Eat?
The cultures inhabiting the Western fringes of the Shang and Zhou world are mostly seen as inferior and uncivilized. Archaeological work here has been limited ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Savoring the Past
Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only accepting names for the wait-list. What is food? Why should we study it? Different archaeologists ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 05/20/2019 02:13 PM
Fragments of Greek Science in a Palimpsest from Bobbio
In 1819 Angelo Mai discovered that on several pages of an 8th century codex of Isidore of Seville's "Etymologies" in the Ambrosiana Library in Milan, the Latin ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/19/2018 04:59 PM
Revisiting Harappan Iconography
During the second half of the third millennium BC, the Harappan civilization covered an area of over one million square kilometers in South Asia, extending ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Cutting Rome Down To Size
Three-quarters of the monumental work of the Roman historian Livy (59 B.C.-A.D.17) is lost. The single most important source to enable us to reconstruct the ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
AIA Lecture: Greeks in the North
Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only accepting names for the wait-list. Ancient Thrace was a land of opportunity, adventure, and trouble. ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: The Sky over Ancient Iraq: Babylonian Astronomy in Context
Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only accepting names for the wait-list. Due to inclement weather on March 21st, the first lecture of the ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
New Publication: "Hic Sunt Dracones" Conference Volume
The proceedings of the ISAW conference, “Hic Sunt Dracones: Creating, Defining, and Abstracting Place in the Ancient World,” have recently appeared in print as ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 06/13/2018 05:06 PM
Seminar Requirements
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Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: The Sky over Ancient Iraq: Babylonian Astronomy in Context
Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only accepting names for the wait-list. The fourth lecture will discuss the scholars who pursued astronomy ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: The Sky over Ancient Iraq: Babylonian Astronomy in Context
Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only accepting names for the wait-list. The third lecture will present new insights into Babylonian ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
An Appetite for the Past
NOTE: We are now fully booked for this event and are no longer accepting RSVPs. This endeavor will bring scholars of the ancient world and food specialists ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: The Sky over Ancient Iraq: Babylonian Astronomy in Context
Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only accepting names for the wait-list. Due to inclement weather on March 21st, the first lecture of the ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 02/05/2019 02:22 PM
Text and Image: Transmedial Inquiries into Ancient Near Eastern Cultures
NOTE: We are now fully booked for this event and are no longer accepting RSVPs. In the ancient Near East many monuments and artifacts incorporated both ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Future Philologies: Digital Directions in Ancient World Text
NOTE: We are now fully booked for this event and are no longer accepting RSVPs. Future Philologies will provide a forum for historical-language projects with a ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
The Silent Fall of an Empire in 1200 BCE
The events causing the end of the Hittite empire at the end of the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean are still unknown, but while its causes have ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/19/2018 05:01 PM
ARCE Lecture: Dirty Pictures for a Dangerous Goddess
Note: We are now fully booked for this event and are only accepting names for the wait-list. Papyrus 55001 in Turin's Museo Egizio, often called the "Turin ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Film Screening: "The Poor Man of Nippur" in the Original Language
"The Poor Man of Nippur" is a comic folk tale in Babylonian language. The main manuscript is a clay tablet from 701 BC found at the site of Sultantepe, in ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Recent and Forthcoming Publications by ISAW Community Members
As part of ISAW's commitment to making specialized research on the ancient world widely available to other academics and the public, we encourage our community ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 02/21/2018 03:22 PM
Unscripted: The Visuality of Monumental Script in Ptolemaic Egypt
In this paper, I will discuss the creative ways that individuals wove Demotic into traditional Hieroglyphic texts using a group of funerary stelae from the ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
The Autobiographical Polis
All communities tell stories about themselves. In literate communities, this historical consciousness manifests itself not only as cultural memory but also as ... by Marc LeBlanc last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM