Urbanization, Trade, and Growing Social Complexity Results from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
Public Lecture | Prof. Hermann Genz (American University of Beirut) The Bronze Age site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, situated on the Lebanese Coast two kilometers south of the modern city of Batroun, was only discovered in 2004. In this paper the main results of the 2004 to 2016 seasons of excavations, conducted by a team from …
Understanding the Development of Complex Society on the Lebanese Coast
Kamal Badreshany (Durham) Public Lecture | 3 July 2024 | 6:30pm The lecture will investigate the development of complex societies in the Lebanese coastal zone during the Early Bronze Age (EBA). New evidence shows that coastal Lebanon, with its unique mountainous setting and ample water resources, developed a distinct pathway to complexity. Dr Kamal Badreshany …
Archaeology in Action!
Saturday 18th May, 10am-2:30pm, Vere Gordon Childe Centre, Madsen Building & online In support of National Archaeology Week, the Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation (NEAF) presents a showcase of current University of Sydney Near Eastern archaeological fieldwork and research projects. Projects explored will include the prehistoric landscape of Arabia, the Hellenistic/Roman theatre at Paphos on Cyprus, …
Vale Dr Graeme Clarke AO FAHA (1934-2023)
Graeme Clarke was an impressively accomplished academic, teacher and administrator who dedicated a lifetime to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world through which Australia and, indeed, the global community benefitted. His death was a blow to many, including the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens of which he was a Council member from 1982 and …
The 2024 Anthony McNicoll Visiting Lectureship
Back to Lagash: New Investigations into an Early Urban Centre in Southern Mesopotamia Professor Holly Pittman | University of Pennsylvania 5:30pm doors for 6:00pm start. The mound of Tell al-Hiba in the Tigris drainage of southern Mesopotamia is among the largest of the urban centers of ancient Sumer. Understood to be ancient Lagash, the eponymous …
The 2024 Edwin Cuthbert Hall Annual Lecture in Archaeology
Professor Barbara Helwing | Thursday 11 April 2024Chau Chak Wing Museum | 5:30pm doors for 6:00pm start. The Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin is one of the major museums focusing on this field within the global north. Best known for the reconstruction of the bright blue Ishtar Gate from Babylon, the museum …
Saturday Seminar Series: Ideology and Belief
Ideology and Belief Welcome to the June Saturday Series. This winter we are traveling back in time from early Islam to Chalcolithic Ghassul looking at manifestations of ideology and belief over a 6,000-year period. The series starts with an examination of theideology of the Ghurid dynasty in 12th Century Afghanistan and a case study of Late Antique Jerash exploring the interaction of politics, popular culture and the church. We will move on to the competing royal ideologies of Neo-Elamite Iran and the Neo-Assyrians, and the intersection of political power andits expression in the architecture in the Southern …
NEAF-British Museum Exclusive – Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
Online Public Lecture by Dr James Fraser (British Museum), 9 August, 2023 The Council of the Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation invite you to an exclusive, personalised, live tour through the British Museum’s dazzling exhibition, Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece. When: Wednesday 9 August, 2023 | 6:00pm AEST Where: This event will be held online …
Greece 2023: Agamemnon to Alexander
Our tour of the great sites of ancient and medieval Greece focuses especially on the worlds of the Aegean Bronze Age and the Macedonian rulers Philip and his son Alexander the Great, whose exploits altered the ancient world forever.
Ancient Arts and Crafts Workshops
Mosaic making is deeply absorbing and relaxing.
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