✨🎨 Now available for all your coloring dreams — “Megiddo Ivories Coloring Book” 🖍️✨ Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0 ▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...

Thanks @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social! Checkout my latest article “From Armageddon to Chicago: The Legacy of the University of Chicago’s Megiddo Expedition" in the new issue of NEA!

Snapshots of “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures” (May 13–Oct 31, 2025) @ the Acropolis Museum. Also very fun to see my ISAC object labels displayed with their Greek-translation counterparts 😆 🇬🇷 #michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...

Thrilled to be celebrating the installation of J.L. Smith’s Persepolis Paintings in the ISAC Museum’s Persian Gallery! I’ll speak about Smith & the history of the paintings’ creation & display before being joined in conversation with 3 exceptional conservators who’ve helped make this a reality 🖤🎨

Now available to stream: exhibition lecture “(Un)broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” presented live Jan 2024 in connection with ISAW exhibition, “Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq.” isaw.nyu.edu/events/archi...

Tell me how this 19th-c. chair @brooklynmuseum.org is a perfect embodiment of Falkor, the luckdragon with big dopey eyes, scaly back and all, yet it predates both Michael Ende’s 1979 Die unendliche Geschichte book & Wolfgang Peterson’s 1984 The Neverending Story film?! 🐉 #theneverendingstory #falkor

ASOR will offer the Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship in 2025. The fellowship, valued at $5,000, is awarded to a scholar/poet/writer/artist whose project proposal comes closest in scope to Herbert Mason’s lifework and is in English. Applications are due March 3, 2025. Read more here: buff.ly/3C6HZw0

#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...

The gift I didn’t know I needed 👽 🎅 😂 #merrychristmas #anunnaki

So grateful both to ASOR & TARII for helping make the Tigris Travel Grant a success in its first year and to the three recipients—Jaafar Jotheri, Mustfaa Al-Hussainy, Hasan Ahmed Qasim Berwary—thank you for sharing your research & your company with us in Boston! Read more here: buff.ly/3Dm8jm6

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It feels like a fitting day to share photos from a recent visit with the imaginative & masterful Syrian-American artist & architect #MohamadHafez to explore his work “Eternal Cities,” installed as part of the new Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Gallery at Yale Peabody Museum curated by Agnete Lassen. 1/

#SensesSunday a midkhan (incense burner) used to burn oud to scent the guest area, or majlis, where it was passed around to guests as a sign of hospitality, today on display in the National Museum of Qatar, Doha #incense #incenseburner #qatar

Applications for the 2023-2024 Contingent Faculty Grants are due December 31st! The grants provide professional development and financial assistance funds to contingent faculty who study or teach about the ancient Mediterranean and its reception: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding. Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone! #museumjobs 📜 #histsci www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/

“Masterpieces of the MANN,” a special exhibit currently on display at Maraya, #AlUla, showcasing collections from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, including those of Alexander III of Macedon, Trajan & Marcus Aurelias, and a mosaic replete with beautiful creatures 🐍 #SaudiArabia

#SensesSunday Short circular ceramic incense burner from the Assyrian capital Dur-Šarrukin, Iraq, excavated by ISAC’s Khorsabad Expedition & recorded on this Catalog Card, in the ISAC Museum Archives 💨 🔥 #Assyria #Incense #Archives On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...

A monumental thanks to the entire ASOR team for yet another incredible annual meeting, hybrid and all! None of this would be possible without all of you. You go above and beyond, and always with a smile 😊 🙏🖤🙌 #ASOR2024 #ASORstaff Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾

Thanks Harvard Art Museums, including Jen Thum & Carl Walsh, for hosting “The Museum is Your Classroom Workshop” for ASOR Annual Meeting attendees #asor2024 #museums #pedagogy

One more sleep until our Annual Meeting in Boston! Download our new app for information about sessions, workshops, business meetings, and special events being offered this year: buff.ly/4959W3D #asor24 #boston

Inaugurating #SensesSunday with this beautiful orthostat relief showing a seated figure holding a lotus flower to his nose 🪷 👃. Before him stand two bullmen supporting a winged sun disk. Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.

If you’re looking to dive into the highly sensorial world of the past, here’s 32 unique perspectives/chapters with which to do so!🪻🪔 💨 🎶 Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤 #sensorystudies #neareast Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284

Case of the Day: TLINGIT TOTEM POLE In 1899, a sacred totem pole (Hoots Kooteeya) of the Bear Den of the Tlingit People was taken from the beach in front of Hoots-Hit house, Old Cape Fox Village, Alaska. mola.omeka.net/items/show/1...

As we roll into winter, here are some warming views from a recent trip to Saudi Arabia for the AlUla World Archaeology Symposium… Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula

It's exciting to see so many new joins in the last few days and to feel communities rebuilding. Here's a starter pack for museum professionals broadly... please reach out to be added! go.bsky.app/CQXG9A5 #museums #museumprofessionals #archaeology #culturalheritage #ancientworld

Bonus fun fact about dogs in the ancient world. Possibly the earliest known images of dogs on leads appears in rock art from two utterly breathtaking heritage sites in Saudi Arabia — Shuwaymis and Jubbah www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Strange times, indeed ❄️ 🐪

If you're into archaeology, the ancient world, and related fields, here are some starter packs you will like 🧵 1/? go.bsky.app/J2BAdwu

Thanks to the Smart Museum for the invitation to participate in their 50th Anniversary Exhibition with a small bit of label text 🙏 Equally thankful to connect with these pieces in their collection by the forever fabulous #MichaelRakowitz from his series “The invisible enemy should not exist” 🖤

Join this Wednesday at 5:30pm EST, “(Un)Broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” hosted virtually by ISAW. Register online to receive the link: isaw.nyu.edu/events/exhib....

Open-access PDF now available for download: "'I Burn as Incense for You': Censers in Assyria and Beyond," in "Holy Smoke," edited by Beate Fricke. www.academia.edu/111948197/

“Recent Repatriation to the Republic of Yemen,” a new display @metmuseum of the stone sculptures, whose ownership has been restored to Yemen. At Yemen’s request, they remain at the museum on loan & are displayed as part of their repatriated heritage, www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/a...

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Honored to be a contributor to this sensorially & beautifully designed volume, which is sold complete with carbon-paper wrapping: “When unpacking, an individual & unique cover design is created for each copy.” 💨 #holysmoke #censers #incense #aromatics #senses www.hirmerverlag.de/eu/titel-1-1...

Works by Gaza artists and Palestinian children are now available for museums in the United States and Europe to borrow through a new initiative.

I WANNA BE CURATED – beautiful 🖤😅 #whenworldscollide "A consultant from the Smithsonian visited before opening, Fat Mike told me, but his ideas for multimedia displays and other pedagogical this and that didn’t make the cut." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/m...

“Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq,” @ ISAW, NYU; photos from my visit, part I: works by Hanaa Malallah, “Babylon Curse” (video & image series 1–4) & “Dove - Drone Hovering over Babylon Borsippa Twin Towers” (video), shown with Al Ani’s Babylon photos, 1961

"Looters continue to pillage Afghanistan’s rich archaeological heritage: Despite Taliban promises to protect sites, satellites show some active looting continues" doi: 10.1126/science.adm6789 @ScienceMagazine www.science.org/content/arti...

In defense of Pazuzu! It was a fun interview for this piece about haunted objects in the ISAC Museum’s collections, talking about Pazuzu and demon trapping bowls. “Curses! We take you on a terrifying tour of 6 haunted objects…” www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...

🚨 👀 Professorship in ANE Art 👀 🚨 ISAC & the Dept of Art History at the University of Chicago invite applications for a Professorship in Ancient Near Eastern Art, with appointment beginning July 1, 2024, or July 1, 2025. For info, and to apply, visit: apply.interfolio.com/135096 EOE/VET/Disability.

A well-preserved lamassu at one of the gates of Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad), reexcavated by the joint Iraqi/French mission after first being discovered in 1992 (the head, stolen in 1995, is today in the Iraq Museum) www.heritagedaily.com/2023/10/arch...