2 stories tagged ‘Adam Aja’

An ancient statue, re-created

By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer / December 4, 2012

Harvard’s Semitic Museum is employing a high-tech response to the destruction of 3,300-year-old figures, using 3-D scanning to repair a ceramic lion that was damaged by the Assyrians.

Tags: 3-D scans/Adam Aja/Alvin Powell/Ceramics/Iraq/Joseph Greene/Learning Sites Inc./lion/Nuzi/Scanning/Semitic Museum/Yorghan Tepe
Categories: Arts & Culture, History, Language & Culture

Baking in the details

By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer / December 15, 2011

A long-term Semitic Museum project labors to conserve thousands of 3,500-year-old clay tablets that detail everyday life in an ancient city.

Tags: Adam Aja/Alex Douglas/Alvin Powell/Anne Lohnert/Archaeology/Baking tablets/clay tablets/Conservation/cuneiform/Dennis Piechota/Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations/Mahindra Humanities Center/Nuzi/Semitic language Akkadian/Semitic Museum
Categories: Culture & Society, HarvardScience