Tag: Harvard Semitic Museum

  • Arts & Culture

    Good things come in ancient packages

    Project to make complete visual digital records of three 3,000-year-old coffins turns up a painting of a deity.

    Dennis Piechota (left), Jane Drake, and Adam Aja view the inside of the coffin of Ankh-khonsu.
  • Arts & Culture

    How Tut became Tut

    Christina Riggs of the University of East Anglia previewed her forthcoming book, “Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive,” in a Harvard lecture.

    The golden death mask of Tutankhamun.
  • Arts & Culture

    The search for a California sphinx

    At what other event would you hear, “This time there would be no Jell-O?” mused Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian last Wednesday at the Harvard Art Museums. It sounded like a…

    Scene from “The Ten Commandments,” 1923.
  • Arts & Culture

    Unearthed bones bring Philistines to life

    A Harvard-backed expedition working in Israel has carried out the first-ever excavation of a Philistine cemetery.

  • Arts & Culture

    How to recast antiquity

    With help from a Harvard grant and a class on the ancient Near East, Harvard students are re-creating casts of Mesopotamian masterpieces.

  • Arts & Culture

    The old, made new

    The Harvard Semitic Museum, hosting a retrospective exhibit on its long history and founder David Gordon Lyon, is refurbished, reordered, and increasingly ready for the future.

  • Arts & Culture

    The modern opens the past

    In the inaugural lecture of a series organized by Harvard’s Digital Futures consortium, data-publishing entrepreneur Eric Kansa lays out a case for archaeology to “get on the map” of disciplines sharing data widely on the Web.

  • Campus & Community

    Collaborative museums

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, the new public face of the FAS science museums, has enjoyed a successful first year with new programs and exhibits and a record number of visitors.