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Immortalizing Death at the Sanctuary of Orthia: The corpus of carved ivories from the sanctuary of Orthia at Sparta has often been invoked as evidence of religious and artistic interrelations between Sparta, ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Beyond Thucydides: Drawing on overlooked genres of evidence and new theoretical approaches, my research illuminates how the fifth-century Athenian empire was not a stable, ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Containers, Commodities, and Greek Colonization in the Mediterranean of the 8th Century BCE: The 8th century BCE is punctuated by milestones in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and by a remarkable intensification of connections, from the Near ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
ARCE Lecture: My Violent King: Representations of violence abound in ancient Egyptian art and texts, where the figure of the smiting king is one of the longest enduring images. Trampling the ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
NYU Shanghai Lecture: Fluid Fire: Medical treatises of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) make constant reference to phlegm (tan 痰) as both cause and consequence of disease. Phlegm figures as a ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
ARCE Lecture: Tricks of the Trade: While working in the per-ankh or "house of life" where vast repositories of manuscripts were kept, Egyptian scribes made every effort to transmit ancient ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
The History of Eighth-century Khotan as Seen from Khotanese Documents: Khotan is an oasis on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China. Viewed as an entrepôt along the “Silk Road,” Khotan is famed as a source of ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Monumental Art and Political Change in Ancient Syria: In the 12th century BCE, when the dissolution of the Hittite Empire released the Eastern Mediterranean communities into times of profound change, the polities ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Maya Maskarinec: by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 12/04/2017 09:37 AM
NYU Shanghai Lecture: From Scripture to Literature: From the first century BCE to the second century CE, China experienced a wax and wane of zeal for the so-called “Confucian” Classics. For example, in 72 CE, ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
NYU Shanghai Lecture: Dreaming in Common: Around 500 BCE, the Ionian thinker Heraclitus is supposed to have said: “For those who are awake there is a single, common universe, whereas in sleep each ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Ancient World Research and Tools in Synergy: Starting from the example of Trismegistos, Depauw will discuss how digital tools are transforming antiquity research. Heuristics used to be the most ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
NYU Shanghai Lecture: A Tale of Two Tombs: Burial goods and an epitaph recently excavated from two contemporary Tang-style tombs in central Mongolia provide a rich record of political and cultural ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
David Danzig Receives Honorable Mention for NYCDH Graduate Student Project Award: ISAW doctoral student David Danzig recently received an honorable mention for the 2017 NYC Digital Humanities Graduate Student Project Award. David's project, ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 11/01/2017 10:44 AM
Theology of Liberation in the Second Millennium BCE: Around 1400 BCE, Hittite scribes recorded a Hurrian epic poem entitled “Song of Liberation” in a bilingual Hurro-Hittite edition, in cuneiform script on clay ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
AIA Lecture: Spying on Antiquity: In 1995, President Clinton declassified 800,000 photographs from CORONA, the United States' first spy satellite program, in order to make them available for ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Chinese Bronze Age Economics: by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Eleventh Annual Leon Levy Lecture: Please note: the Leon Levy Lecture is now fully subscribed; we are no longer accepting RSVPs or names for our wait-list. This lecture will explore the ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Robert Hoyland & Erik Hermans: by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 10/20/2017 04:21 PM
Hoyland and Hermans: by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 10/20/2017 04:12 PM
ARCE Lecture: Conserving Cairo 1882-2012: This presentation offers a retrospective view of the history of architectural conservation in Cairo. Blessed, or perhaps cursed, with an astonishing number and ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
There Goes the Neighborhood: City life in North Africa during the Roman period is often portrayed as a monolithic image of gleaming marble temples and elites, of unrivalled urban wealth ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Water in Sumer: Ancient water management, especially for irrigation purposes, has featured prominently in anthropological theories on the development of socio-political and ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Prospective Student Open House: ISAW's open house for prospective doctoral students will include coffee with ISAW students, faculty, and scholars; an information session about our academic ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Faculty Search: History and Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean: The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of a ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 10/02/2017 10:30 AM
ISAW Now Accepting Applications for 2018-19 Visiting Research Scholar Program: The online application for ISAW's 2018-19 Visiting Research Scholar Program is now open. Each year the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/27/2017 01:10 PM
Eastern Iran and Western Central Asia during Late Antiquity (3rd-5th cent. CE): Numismatics, Archaeology, and Art History in Dialogue: Late Antiquity in Western Central Asia and Eastern Iran—that is the centuries between the downfall of the Great Kushan dynasty and the beginning of Türk ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
Architectural Conservation in Egypt’s Western Desert: Architectural conservation and presentation work at the site of Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis, supported by ISAW, began in 2007 and has focused on mud-brick ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM
DAY TWO: The Scribal Mind: Textual Criticism in Antiquity: The intellectual exercise of textual criticism is far from a modern invention. Without the regularity provided by printing, there were constantly different ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM — Filed under: video
KEYNOTE LECTURE: The Art of Compilation: The intellectual exercise of textual criticism is far from a modern invention. Without the regularity provided by printing, there were constantly different ... by Marc LeBlanc — last modified 09/06/2018 03:23 PM — Filed under: video