Program Archive

See our past programs below for descriptions, photos, and comments. Click on the title or image to learn more about the program.

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: Jay Heritage Center

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2020

: Monumental Perspectives on the Maya: Royal Courts, Hierarchy, and Change; March 22, 2020; Leave Feedback

: Taking to the Water: The Mystery about the Earliest Seafaring in the World; February 23, 2020; Leave Feedback

: New Insights on Slavery in the Hudson River Valley through Collections Research; January 26, 2020; 1 Comment

2019

: A Garment to Die For -The Archaeology of Fashion in Ancient Egypt: * Clothing, Cosmetics, Coiffures; December 15, 2019; Leave Feedback

: The Dura Europos Synagogue: A New Look at a Rare Discovery; November 10, 2019; Leave Feedback

: Mari and the Minoans; October 20, 2019; Leave Feedback

: HackDigs: A High School Dig at a High School in Westchester; September 22, 2019; Leave Feedback

: Public lecture series, GODS OF OLD: THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT IRAQ; May 15, 2019 - June 30, 2019; Leave Feedback

: Museum Visit; May 8, 2019; Leave Feedback

: Terracotta Warriors after the First Emperor: Re-evaluating the Qin Legacy in the Han; May 5, 2019; Leave Feedback

: The First Feasts: How Communal Meals Became a Central Part of Human Rituals; April 7, 2019; Leave Feedback

: We Once Were a Numerous People: The Encounter between Lewis and Clark and the People of Sacajawea; March 24, 2019; Leave Feedback

: The Archaeology of Beer: Around the World in 13,000 Years; February 24, 2019; Leave Feedback

: Metropolitan Museum Trip; January 31, 2019; Leave Feedback

2018

: Clothing Egyptians; December 31, 2018; 1 Comment

: Trash or Treasure? What I Found Excavating in Lower Manhattan; December 9, 2018; Leave Feedback

: A View from Jezebel’s Window; November 11, 2018; 1 Comment

: The Rise and Fall of Cities: It’s All About the Infrastructure; October 28, 2018; 2 Comments

: Evading the Amarna Pharaohs and the Egyptian Empire: Subversion in the land of Canaan; September 30, 2018; Leave Feedback

: Noah’s Beasts; May 19, 2018; Leave Feedback

: The Health of Mummies: Unwrapping the Egyptian Dead; April 29, 2018; Leave Feedback

: Worlds in Motion: Ireland, the Atlantic, and Early Colonial America; March 17, 2018; Leave Feedback

: The World of Lake Chad; February 24, 2018; Leave Feedback

: Noah’s Beasts; January 28, 2018; 1 Comment

2017

: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CENTRAL PARK; December 10, 2017; Leave Feedback

: Hellenism at the Edge of the World: New Excavations in Uzbekistan; November 12, 2017; 4 Comments

: Spying on Antiquity: Declassified U.S. Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology; October 22, 2017; 5 Comments

: “2600 years of Forgers and Forgeries: The Defenders and Detractors of Biblical Textual Forgeries.”; September 16, 2017; Leave Feedback

: Noah’s Beasts: Sculpted Animals from Ancient Mesopotamia; July 14, 2017; Leave Feedback

: Cold Spring Archaeology and History Trip; June 3, 2017; 2 Comments

: Build a Wall: Make Mesopotamia Great Again (and Egypt too); May 25, 2017; 2 Comments

: Borscht Belt Archaeology; April 23, 2017; 2 Comments

: The Ark Before Noah; March 30, 2017; Leave Feedback

: The Great Museum of the Sea; March 26, 2017; 6 Comments

: Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga; February 26, 2017; Leave Feedback

: Fruits of the Silk Road; January 29, 2017; Leave Feedback

2016

: Khirbet Keiyafa: A City of David in Goliath’s Shadow; December 11, 2016; 2 Comments

: Gods and Mortals at Olympus: Ancient Dion, City of Zeus; November 13, 2016; Leave Feedback

: The Salem Witch Trials and Gallows Hill; October 30, 2016; 2 Comments

: Pre-Israelite Jerusalem: From in the Beginning to David; September 20, 2016; 2 Comments

: Up the River Ramble in Ossining and the Battle for Fort Montgomery; September 10, 2016; Leave Feedback

: Tremors on the Mount; August 21, 2016; 4 Comments

: Life and Death in the Land of Midian; June 12, 2016; Leave Feedback

: Haunted by Jamestown; May 15, 2016; Leave Feedback

: Archaeology in Ireland: Blackfriary Community Heritage & Archaeology Project; April 7, 2016; 1 Comment

: Saving Mesopotamian Monuments; February 21, 2016; Leave Feedback

: The Origin of Anti-Semitism: Assyria, Persia, and Egypt in Ancient Times; January 31, 2016; Leave Feedback

2015

: Back from Oblivion: the Hunt’s Point Slave Burying Ground in the Bronx; December 6, 2015; Leave Feedback

: America’s Hidden History: A Bucket List for “Time Travelers”; October 25, 2015; Leave Feedback

: The “French Alliance” in the American Revolution: A Local View; September 20, 2015; Leave Feedback

: Trip to Jay Heritage Center; September 11, 2015; Leave Feedback

2014

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