2024 Annual General Meeting
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 7.00pmWednesday 20 March Public Lecture | Digging in the Desert : Life and Death in Ancient Arabia | …
New insights into the Archaeology of Lebanon: The Excavations at Tell el-Burak, South of Sidon, and their Middle Bronze Age and Iron Age Results
Wednesday 28 February, 6.30pm | This is a hybrid lecture What’s new in archaeological research in Lebanon? What can we learn from recently excavated sites for the history and culture of Lebanon? The lecture will address these questions on the basis of the excavations in Tell el-Burak, which were carried out by a Lebanese-German team from 2001-2022. …
‘The Latest Discoveries and findings from ancient Egypt’ Dr Mostafa Waziry
Friday 17th November 2023 – 7.30pm – 8.30pm: Venue: Eastern Avenue Auditorium – University of Sydney Dear Members and Friends, We are pleased to provide you with information about a lecture by Dr Mostafa Waziry who is an Egyptian Archaeologist, Egyptologist, and the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt. This lecture is presented by the Chau Chak Wing Museum (CCWM). …
‘Cypriot Bronze Age Regionalism : What was going on in the West?’ The 2023 JB Hennessy Memorial Lecture.
Dear Members and Friends – Please join us on November 28th for the 2023 JB Hennessy Memorial Lecture to be presented by Dr Lindy Crewe – Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia. Pioneering work on the Early–Middle Bronze Age of Cyprus focussed on cemeteries in the eastern, central and north coast …
The Edwin Cuthbert Hall Annual Lecture 2023
“Of Lost Gods and Gardens: Zoroastrian Echoes at the Royal City of Akchakhan-kala, Karakalpakstan“ Professor Alison BettsDate: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 5:00 PM – 7:30 PMLocation: Chau Chak Wing Museum Image courtesy of KAE (Karakalpak-Australian Expedition) The Karakalpak-Australian Expedition has been excavating at the massive, fortified site of Akchakhan-kala since 1994. Work there has revealed …
Richard’s Gift: Cyprus in the Age of the Crusades8 November at 6.30pm (by ZOOM Only)
Dear Members and Friends – Please join us for our November 8th lecture on Cyprus to be presented by our colleague Dr Stephen Bourke. After nearly a hundred years of crusading effort, the entire enterprise stood on a knife’s edge, hopelessly compromised by Saladin’s conquests after Hattin (1187 CE). The great rescue effort of the Third …
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 …
Recent excavations at Alambra: A Middle Bronze Age settlement in Cyprus
Dr Andrew Sneddon (Extent Heritage) Public Lecture: Wednesday 13 September 2023 The event will be held online on Zoom only Public Lecture Dr Andrew Sneddon has recently published the results of four seasons of excavation at the Middle Bronze Age site of Alambra in Cyprus. The settlement was destroyed by fire around 1700 BCE. It …
Middle Eastern Food Tour
Join Kate da Costa and Peta Seaton and experience Middle Eastern food and waresin our NEAF tour in the cultural heart of western Sydney! Saturday 16 September 20239.45am –2.30pm$95 (includes lunch ) Itinerary will be provided after booking To book: https://pay.sydney.edu.au/food-tour
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 …