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Peter Der Manuelian

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Image foundin the Coffin of Mut-iy-iy

A new name for the Semitic Museum

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East more 'accurately reflects the diversity of the collection'

News|

DateApril 15, 2020April 20, 2020

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

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

Arts|

DateFebruary 14, 2020February 19, 2020

Harvard square as seen from above

Places we love

People from the Harvard community share their favorite spots on campus

Campus|

DateMay 22, 2019May 22, 2019

Students wearing 3D glasses view a visualization of an Egyptian tomb.

Armchair travels with a purpose

Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond, and even print them in 3D

Arts|

DateMay 15, 2019

Scene from “The Ten Commandments,” 1923.

The search for a California sphinx

Harvard Egyptologist welcomes production team behind documentary on ‘Ten Commandments’ mystery

Arts|

DateOctober 17, 2018April 16, 2019

A cast fit for an Egyptian king

Guided by Semitic Museum curator, students create ‘Dream Stela’ replica

Arts|

DateJune 8, 2018April 16, 2019

bas-reliefs

Casting new light on ancient epics

Copies of bas-reliefs illustrate Mesopotamian history at the Semitic Museum

Arts|

DateFebruary 14, 2018April 16, 2019

Technical artist David Hopkins helped reconstruct the chair, which involved more than 2,000 individual pieces.

Egyptian-style handiwork with a digital past

Artists draw on archive to re-create millennia-old ‘Queen’s Chair’ piece by piece

Arts|

DateFebruary 22, 2016December 19, 2017

Rebecca Chen '16 works to repair a relief, which will adorn the walls of the third floor Mesopotamian gallery of the Harvard Semitic Museum.

How to recast antiquity

Students help re-create Mesopotamian reliefs for Semitic Museum

Arts|

DateApril 29, 2015

Detail from an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple relief (photo 1) at the Harvard Semitic Museum. Harvard Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian (photo 2) outlines the life of museum founder David Gordon Lyon, pictured far right. Manuelian’s co-lecturers Adam Aja (left, photo 3) and Joseph A. Greene.

The old, made new

Refurbished Semitic Museum celebrates the past while reorienting for the future

Arts|

DateDecember 18, 2014September 11, 2019

Ozdemir Vayisoglu ’16 is one of 11 Harvard undergraduates who worked closely with Harvard faculty and administrators this summer as part of the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program.

Sampling the scholar’s life

Summer program encourages students to plunge into research

Arts|

DateAugust 11, 2014March 5, 2019

“Egyptomania is still alive and well today,” said Bob Brier, a Long Island University senior research fellow and Egyptologist. “You’ve got mummies that scream immortality. You’ve got mysterious hieroglyphics that seem beautiful but are indecipherable, and you’ve got that sense of lost worlds waiting to be discovered."

‘Wonderful things,’ indeed

Wide fascination with ancient Egypt has long history, specialist says

Arts|

DateNovember 20, 2013

It's believed that Thutmose (photo 1) was the artist behind the bust of Queen Nefertiti. This research is a testament to the academic interest of French Egyptologist Alain Zivie, who came to Harvard to present "Discovering the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti's Artist: The Tomb of Thutmose at Saqqara" (photo 2). Zivie discovered Thutmose’s presumptive tomb in 1996, which is depicted in a rendering (photo 3).

The queen and the sculptor

Egyptologist thinks he has found tomb of artist who created famed bust of Nefertiti

Arts|

DateOctober 21, 2013March 12, 2019

Innovation is an increasingly important part of Harvard. The interactive FloTree at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is a tangible example (photo 1); as is the i-lab, Harvard's entrepreneurial hub (photo 2); and the MetaLAB's student-designed "Labrary," a pop-up space where "innovative scenarios for the future" begin (photo 3).

The watchword is innovation

Harvard Schools point toward future where creativity is king

Science|

DateSeptember 25, 2013July 26, 2019

In a recent talk at the Science Center, Eric Kansa — "a true revolutionary," according to Judson Harward, director of research computing for the arts and humanities at Harvard University Information Technology — pleaded with his audience to "start an open-access journal" dedicated to archaeology.

The modern opens the past

Digital data-mining can greatly benefit archaeological studies, scholar says

Arts|

DateSeptember 17, 2013April 30, 2019

A virtual tour of the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, one of the largest archaeological sites in Egypt.

Dimensions of ancient Egypt

Karnak project a cutting-edge approach to antiquity

Science|

DateMarch 8, 2013May 23, 2019

The golden burial mask of King Tut, which is in the Egyptian Museum.

A different take on Tut

Egyptian archaeologist shares theory on pharaoh’s lineage

Arts|

DateFebruary 11, 2013March 15, 2019

Giza in Another Dimension – Innovation at Harvard

Campus|

DateMarch 9, 2012May 2, 2019

Students pore over old texts in the Gen Ed class “Introduction to the Bible."

Gen Ed connects the dots of life

First years of Gen Ed program are marked by innovation, expansion

Campus|

DateDecember 14, 2011July 19, 2019

The future of archaeology

Manuelian, an Egyptologist, is steeped in digging but wedded to the Web

Arts|

DateDecember 1, 2011July 11, 2019

Breakthrough

Harvard's legacy of intellectual discovery

Campus|

DateOctober 12, 2011March 14, 2019

Revolutionizing Egyptology

Arts|

DateOctober 12, 2011February 13, 2018

“The course has given me a chance to go beyond what I would normally experience in a classroom,” said William Weingarten ’11 of Peter Der Manuelian's (pictured) Gen Ed course "Pyramid Schemes." “I've enjoyed getting the chance to travel out to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and to visit the Visualization Center here at Harvard to get a deeper intuition for what Egypt was really like thousands of years ago.”

Generally, a happy anniversary

Gen Ed curriculum expands, draws wide interest after its first year

Campus|

DateDecember 2, 2010July 19, 2019

Faculty of Arts and Sciences announces 2010-11 full professors

Campus|

DateMay 13, 2010July 25, 2019