In the Time of the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Levant in the New Kingdom
Forthcoming Saturday Series NEAF is delighted to present its next Saturday Series, ‘In the time of the Pharaohs: Egypt and the Levant during the New Kingdom’, which will explore Egypt and its connections with the Levant during the New Kingdom. With the exciting upcoming Australian Museum exhibition, ‘Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs’, coming …
Visit by His Excellency, Bernard Lynch – Australia’s Ambassador to Jordan
NEAF was very pleased to welcome His Excellency, Bernard Lynch – Australia’s Ambassador to Jordan – to the University of Sydney on 16 March 2023. His Excellency visited the Chau Chak Wing Museum with Dr Stephen Bourke and Dr Paul Donnelly.
Seasons Greetings from the NEAF President
Seasons Greetings! Thank you for being such a wonderful part of the NEAF community, and for your participation in and support of our NEAF activities during 2022. As NEAF President, I’ve loved seeing people join our lectures and events by zoom from around Australia, the world, and where possible, in person. Your support of our …
Vale Martha Sharp Joukowsky (1936-2022)
We share the sad news that Martha Sharp Joukowsky passed away on January 7, 2022.
Vale Win Stephen
It is with a real mixture of sadness and love that NEAF says farewell to one of our greatest supporters and friends in Lady (Win) Stephen. Born (in Adelaide) into a strongly medical family as the daughter of James Bonnin, a general practitioner, and sibling of five brothers (four of whom became doctors) and a …
Vale Judith McKenzie
(November 28, 1957 – May 27, 2019) In a tribute to Judith McKenzie written by Alan Walmsley, a fellow archaeologist who also prepared his doctorate at Sydney University in the mid-1980s, he praised Judith as ‘one of Australia’s most eminent alumni in the humanities’ (Levant, 2000). Yet Judith never held a distinguished ‘named’ chair at a …
Vale Michelle Cotton
Dr Michele Cotton AM NEAF Councillor from 1 April 2002 to 1 April 2011. Michele wanted to be an archaeologist when she was a child – but then became a vet! She had lived and worked in the Middle East (Riyadh) for many years (as a result of her husband Peter’s work) and while bringing up …