2 stories tagged ‘Joseph Greene’

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

History shines through the glass

By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer / June 13, 2011

Researchers are examining the Harvard Semitic Museum’s collection of ancient glass for clues about the people who made it and their interactions with other societies through trade.

Tags: Alvin Powell/Archaeology/Glass/Harvard Art Museums/Iraq/Iraq Museum/Isotopic analysis/Joseph Greene/Katherine Eremin/Mesopotamia/Natron/Nuzi/Patrick Degryse/Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/Plant ash/Richard Starr/Semitic Museum/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies
Categories: Culture & Society, HarvardScience