Centres and institutes_
Lectures
We offer a range of public lectures throughout the year
These events are a great way to keep in touch with recent archaeological discoveries, as well as the chance to meet like-minded people who are fascinated by archaeology.
2020 Lectures
Pyramid of Menkaure, Giza
Dr Karin Sowada | Macquarie University
COSMIC TO MICROSCOPIC: HIDDEN SPACES & NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE PYRAMID FIELD AT GIZA
New science on archaeological remains from the pyramid workers’ settlement, and the Pyramids themselves, continues to reveal surprising new information about Egypt’s most famous monuments. By harnessing cosmic rays, a new chamber was discovered in the Great Pyramid of Khufu (c. 2560 BCE). Scientific analysis on the humblest of artefacts – fragments of ancient pottery – exposed the far distant reach of Egypt’s international relations under the great kings of the era. This lecture explores several exciting new stories from the Giza plateau, and the role of science and archaeology in moving debate about the site beyond mere speculation.
Dr Karin Sowada obtained a PhD in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Sydney in 2002 and is now an ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. Her project, Pyramids, Power and the Dynamics of State in Crisis, examines the role and impact of Egypt as a state actor in the eastern Mediterranean during the Pyramid Age (c. 2686-2181 BCE).
Cost
NEAF welcomes voluntary contributions for lecture attendance from its members and the community.
NEAF Seminar series
Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation Saturday Seminar Series
Ancient Syria
10:00 am-12:00 noon
- 27 June 2020
Dr Stephen Bourke - 04 July 2020
Dr John Tidmarsh - 11 July 2020
Dr Kate da Costa - 18 July 2020
Dr Ross Burns
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May 2020
Cleopatra’s Island: Evidence of Hellenistic Cyprus from Nea Paphos and beyond
Dr Craig Barker
April 2020
The Legacy of the Cape Gelidonya Wreck and Bronze Age Maritime Trade in the Mediterranean
Dr Joseph Lehner
December 2019
Ghostbusting in Mesopotamia
Professor Irving Finkel | British Museum
October 2019
The Highs and Lows of Life in Roman Mesopotamia
Peter Edwell, Macquarie University
August 2019
Darband-i Rania: Gateway to the Zagros
By Dr Amanda Dusting, University of New England
June 2019
Beneath the Wings of the Thunderbird: Excavating Tello in Southern Iraq
By Dr Jamie Fraser, Nicholson Museum
May 2019
Noble Neighbours: Life in Imperial Cities of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
By Shana Zaia, University of Vienna
April 2019
Hunters of Ustyurt
By Alison Betts, Professor of Silk Road Studies, The University of Sydney
September 2018
Ross Burnes Lecture: Damascus 1918
August - September
Exploring theseven wonders of the ancient world
A NEAF Seminar Series
August 2018
Engineering Internationalism: UNESCO’s Victory in Nubia
By Dr Lynn Meskell
July 2018
The Archaeology of Lawrence in Arabia
by Stephen Bourke
June 2018
Houses of Ghosts: Dolmen Tombs in Bronze Age Levant
Lecture and book launch by James Fraser
April 2018
The Gunpowder Empires
A NEAF Seminar Series
April 2018
The Sakdrisi Gold Mining Complex
A lecture by Thomas Stöllner
March 2018
Afghan Daze: Hazy recollections of warlords, looting and the Ghurids
A lecture and book launch by David Thomas
November 2017
Inaugural J. Basil Hennessy Lecture
by Stephen Bourke
October 2017
Lustre: The Pearl Trade in Antiquity
by Deborah Hope
September 2017
The Origins of Money: Silver Sources in the Ancient World
by Dr Gil Davis
August 2017
Cargoes of Cloth: Textile trade in the ancient world
by Christina Sumner
July 2017
Salt, Stone, Spice and Silk: Trade in the Ancient World
A NEAF Seminar Series
May 2017
Lapis Lazuli: King of the Blues. The Stone that Rocked the World
by Dr Wendy Reade
May 2017
From Cordoba to Kashgar: Islamic Cultures and the Wider World
A NEAF Seminar Series
March 2017
The Archaeology of Western Asia today: Challenges, old and new
by Professor Barbara Helwing
November 2016
Aleppo: A Lost City?
by Dr Ross Burns
September 2016
The Nabataeans Beyond Petra: New Insights into Ancient Arabia from Jordan’s Desert Inscriptions and Rock Carvings
by Glenn J. Corbett
August 2016
From Cordoba to Kashgar
A NEAF Seminar Series
July 2016
Ice Age Villagers of the Levant: Sedentism and Social Connections in the Natufian Period
by Dr Phillip Edwards
May 2016
Fire Temples and Towers of Silence: Zoroastrian Architectural Legacies
by Prof Alison Betts
April 2016
The Visible Dead: Dolmens and the landscape in Bronze Age Levant
by James Fraser
March 2016
The Foundations of Western Civilisations
The First Millennium CE.
March 2016
NEAF 2016 AGM: Shangri-La Beneath a Summer Moon
A film by the Kashmir Prehistory Project.
