Khaled El-Rouayheb named 2016 Cabot Fellow; Harvard Gazette, 5/3/2016
Eleven faculty members have been awarded 2016 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships for their outstanding publications, among them NELC's own Khaled El-Rouayheb, the James Richard Jewett Professor of...
View ArticleGoyko Barjamovic featured in "Singapore of the Bronze Age" Der Spiegel 19/2016
Singapore of the Bronze AgeArchaeology. Bankruptcies, inheritance feuds, financial crises: Four thousand years ago Assyrian merchants left behind 23,500 clay tablets that provide a fascinating insight...
View ArticleRivka B. Hyland '16 featured in this Harvard Gazette article
Wrapping her mind around the past: Rivka B. Hyland thrills to the details in history and cultureHarvard Gazette, May 20, 2016Rivka B. Hyland ’16 always keeps an embroidered handkerchief in her...
View ArticlePeter Manuelian in the Committee on Archaeology newsletter (spring 2016)
The Giza Project and the Harvard Semitic Museum
View Article"A Queen's Seat" - Harvard Magazine, July/August 2016
A Queen's Seat “Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic MuseumHarvard Magazine, July/August 2016Much is still unknown about the world of the ancient Egyptian elites, whose lives are...
View ArticleHarvard University Explores New Applications of Archaeological Data in the...
What do the great expeditions of the early 20th century have in common with some of today’s digital projects in the field of archaeology? They both make use of large teams and require a passionate...
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Gojko Barjamovic Featured in The Washington Post, Newsweek, and More
Gojko Barjamovic and colaborators Thomas Chaney, Kerem A. Cosar, and Ali Hortacsu, developed an algorithm based on trade data from 12,000 ancient clay tablets. The results help corroborate the...
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Harvard Gazette Features "Ancient Lives" Instructor Gojko Barjamovic
Present meets the past in Gojko Barjamovic's course Ancient Lives. From recreating Mesopotamian recipes to studiying ancient pottery in a laboratory setting, The Harvard Gazette gets the scoop on how...
View ArticleGSANES 2021: "Disruption in the Ancient Near East" (Feb. 19-20).
We are happy to announce that the third Graduate Symposium in AncientNear Eastern Studies (GSANES) will take place on February 19-20, 2021over Zoom. The topic for this year's symposium is "Disruption...
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