The California Museum of Ancient Art has announced its Winter 2009 lecture series, “Digging into the Ancient World of the Bible.”
March 4, 7:30 p.m., Ronny Reich, “New Discoveries from the City of David.”
March 30, 7:30 p.m., Aaron Burke, “Egyptians and Greeks in Jaffa: A New Look at the Ancient Mediterranean Port.”
Both lectures will be held at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. The cost for adults is $15 (students $12) per lecture.
Aaron Burke is Assistant Professor of Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Levant at UCLA and he began excavations in Jaffa in 2007 or 2008. Ronny Reich is well known to readers of this blog as the excavator of numerous important sites in Jerusalem.
More information about the lecture series is available at the museum website (pdf file here).
HT: George Grena
