The 52nd Annual Archaeology Lecture Series is underway at Wheaton College, entitled “Ashkelon and the Ports of the Mediterranean.” The remaining lectures are:
Wednesday, Oct 31, 6:30pm
Brian Brisco, “The Persian Period at Ashkelon”
Billy Graham Center, Room 140
Wednesday, Nov 7, 6:30pm
Tracy Hoffman, “The Byzantine and Islamic Periods at Ashkelon”
Billy Graham Center, Room 140
The following lectures are free, open to the public, and held in the Breasted Hall of the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute.
Wednesday, Nov 7, 7pm-9pm
Allison Thomason, “Banquets, Baubles and Bronzes: Material Comforts in Neo-Assyrian Palaces”
Wednesday, Dec 5, 7pm-9pm
Scott Branting, “Mapping the Past”
Wednesday, Jan 9, 7pm-9pm
Harald Hauptmann, “Neolithic Revolution of the Ancient Near East”
Wednesday, Feb 6, 7pm-9pm
Terry Wilfong, “Anxious Egyptians: Personal Oracles as Indices of Anxieties in the Later Periods”
Wednesday, Mar 5, 7pm-9pm
David Schloen, “Excavations at Zincirli”
Wednesday, Apr 2, 7pm-9pm
Nadine Moeller, “Tell Edfu, Egypt”
Wednesday, May 7, 7pm-9pm
Larry Stager, “Excavating Ashkelon, Sea Port of the Phillistines”
Wednesday, Jun 4, 7pm-9pm
Stuart Tyson Smith, “Death at Tombos: Pyramids, Iron, and the Rise of the Nubian Dynasty”
