[First posted 12/16/09, updated 03/18/10, updated 6/01/10, updated 8/3/10]
- Exploring the Roots of Mesopotamian Civilization: Excavations at Tell Zeidan, Syria
Gil Stein, Oriental Institute
June 2, 2010 Download Video of the lecture - Meluhha: the Indus Civilization and Its Contacts with Mesopotamia
Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
May 5, 2010 Download Video of the lecture - Tracking the Frontiers of the Hittite Empire
Ann Gunter, Northwestern University
April 7, 2010 Download Video of the lecture - Biblical Archaeology, the Limits of Science, and the Borders of Belief
Nina Burleigh
March 3, 2010 Download Video of the lecture - Death's Dominion: Chalcolithic Religion and the Ritual Economy of the Southern Levant
Yorke Rowan, Oriental Institute
February 3, 2010 Download Video of the lecture - Sea of Galilee Boat
Shelley Wachsmann, Texas A&M University
Cosponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America
October 7, 2009 Download Video of the lecture - After the Revolution: the Oriental Institute and Archaeology in Iran
Abbas Alizadeh, Director, Iran Prehistoric Project, Oriental Institute
October 7, 2009 Download Video of the lecture - Past, Present and Future of the Landscape in the Land of King Midas: Gordion, Turkey"
Naomi Miller, University of Pennsylvania Museum MASCA-Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology
March 4, 2009 Download Video of the lecture Download Audio of the lecture - Death and the City: Recent Work at Tell Brak, Syria"
Augusta McMahon, University of Cambridge
January 7, 2009
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Health Care and Epidemics in Antiquity: The Example of Ancient Mesopotamia
A part of the Epidemics Then and Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World series
Lecture by Walter Farber, Professor of Assyriology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. From the ''Epidemics Then and Now: Infectious Diseases Around the World,'' the 2006 University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators. Co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies, the Graham School of General Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the South Asia Language and Area Center, the Human Rights Program and the University of Illinois Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.Source: CHIASMOS