Saturday - November 23, 2024
Archaeology Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Thursday October 31, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Lycoming College Humanities Research Center to Host "Lives of the Gods" Lecture
WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- Lycoming College issued the following news: Visiting Scholar, archaeologist, and museum professional James Doyle, Ph.D., will deliver a talk entitled, "Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art," on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 4:30 p.m., in the Humanities Research Center on the Lycoming College campus. The lecture is a free event and is open to members of the public. "Maya artists depicted the gods at all stages of their lives: in childhood, as adults in   more

Northern Arizona University: Have We Found All the Major Maya Cities? Not Even Close.
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- Northern Arizona University issued the following news: Have archaeologists already discovered all of the major ancient Maya monuments--or is there still much more to be found? That question has divided experts for some time. But a new study in the journal Antiquity, led by a scholar at Northern Arizona University, may put the debate to rest. Along with colleagues at Tulane University, Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia and the Univ  more

UC-Santa Cruz: A Popular Humanities Course is Unwrapping the Strange and Fraught History and Cultural Afterlife of Egyptian Mummies.
SANTA CRUZ, California, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * This spooky, one-of-a-kind class grew out of a years-long friendship between Associate Professor of Literature Renee Fox and Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan, with Sullivan reading Fox's scholarly work on the Victorian fascination with the supernatural, and Fox immersing herself in Sullivan's research on ancient Egyptian sites using 3D computer imaging. * *  more