Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2025

Public Lecture
Margaret Murray’s Excavations in Malta
Dr Claudia Sagona

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 6:30pm
The Council of the Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation invite you to the Annual General Meeting followed by a public lecture. The AGM and public lecture will be held in-person & online via Zoom.

AGM at 6.30pm | Lecture at 7.00pm

Margaret Alice Murray was a pioneer for women in Egyptology and archaeology. When she could no longer work with Flinders Petrie in Egypt during winter field seasons, she turned to the Maltese Archipelago. Her accounts of work in Malta hold gems of information and her contribution to archaeological investigations on the islands should not be overlooked. She worked at three sites, but Murray is best known for her excavations of a megalithic complex at Borġ in-Nadur, a Late Neolithic site.

Dr Claudia Sagona is an Honorary Principal Fellow in Archaeology in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, at The University of Melbourne.

She is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her research has taken her from Syria to north-eastern Turkey and the Caucasus. Since ts inception in 2008, she has been a co-director of the Georgian and Australian Investigations in Archaeology (G.A.I.A) conducted in the Republic of Georgia. In Malta, she excavated with the University of Malta at the Punic temple of Tas-Silġ. Her research on the extensive Phoenician-Punic burial sites in the islands culminated in a book, The Archaeology of Malta: From the Neolithic through the Roman Period (Cambridge UP, 2015). In recognition of her contribution to Malta, she was made an honorary member of the National Order of Merit of Malta (MOM) in 2007.


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