The Amheida Excavations

ISAW Library hosts 2025 New York Metro Papyrology Workshop The ISAW Library hosted the 2025 New York Metro Papyrology Workshop on April 11, 2025.

*NEW* ISAW Library Blog Post: ISAW Library hosts 2025 NY Metro Papyrology Workshop. Thanks to all who attended! We are looking forward to new collaborations next year and hopefully our third meeting in 2026! @isawnyu.bsky.social #papyrology isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

ISAW Library Announces the launch of the Digital South Caucasus Collection The Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World announces the beta release of the Digital South Caucasus Collection. The Digital South Caucasus Collection preserves and provides open a...

ISAW library announces the beta of the Digital South Caucasus Collection, an open access digital library of historical and archaeological scholarship related to the ancient South Caucasus (dscc.its.nyu.edu). Read more here: isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog... @isawnyu.bsky.social #archaeology #libraries

The passing of Prof Bezalel Porten (1931-2025) | H-Net

ISAW Library Events: Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire This lecture is the third in the ISAW Libraries events series for the 2024-2025 academic year. It will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. ...

ISAW Library Book Talk: Sarah Bond (Univ. of Iowa) discusses her new book *Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire* March 12 @5:30, ISAW lecture Hall. See link for registration and more information. isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawl...

a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone

We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!

Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺

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NYU Special Collections accessions the archive of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America In October 2024, the ISAW Library assisted NYU Special Collections in accession the archive of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

*NEW blog post* The ISAW library announces the deposit of the papers of the NY Society of the Archaeological Institute of America with NYU Libraries. #AIA #NYU @isawnyu.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

Pompeii: Spectacular new discoveries unearthed include private spa A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash.

A bit of news from Pompeii, entirely appropriate for #FrescoFriday 😊

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ISAW Library Research Digest 2024 An update about research by ISAW library staff in 2024.

*NEW* post from the ISAW Library: Research round-up 2024. Come see what your friendly neighborhood ancient studies librarians have been up to over the past year. And yeah, that’s the right graphic @diyclassics.bsky.social @secret-terror.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

Experimenting with the ISAW AI Librarian A guest blog post by Federico Di Pasqua, who spent several weeks in the ISAW during the Fall 2024 term experimenting with deploying generative AI to find potential avenues for making ISAW Library coll...

*NEW* ISAWLib Blog: Federico Di Pasqua describes his experiments with #generativeAI looking to make @isawnyu.bsky.social data and collections more accessible and useful. He also publishes his draft code for the “ISAW AI Librarian.” #librarydata #nextgenreference isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

An eagle-shaped brooch made of gold with red stone inlays.

One of the highlights of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum/Nürnberg: the eagle-shaped fibula from Domagnano, part of a set of jewellery that would have belonged to an Ostrogothic princess or high ranking noble lady around 500 AD. #Archaeology

Undecorated wooden headrest of conventional form. Possibly a provincial piece. Condition: Each end of curved portion of headrest badly chipped, otherwise good. Top of headrest appears ancient, cylindrical support and base look dubious. Possibly an assembled piece, although at present it is impossible to say that the piece is a forgery. Base seems small for support and the beveled edge is hard to explain.

Headrest https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/17371

Ancient Egyptian Skull Reveals Evidence of Tumor Surgery - GreekReporter.com Archaeologists discovered that efforts were made to remove a tumor from an ancient Egyptian skull, rewriting the history of cancer treatment.

Ancient Egyptian Skull Reveals Evidence of Tumor Surgery
#Egypt #Egyptology #science #technology
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El Alamein's ruins offer a glimpse into Greco-Roman civilization and a significant WWII battle
#Egypt #Egyptology
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Spotlighting Islamic Spain Through NYU's Library Collections To complement ISAW’s new exhibition “Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain,” NYU museum studies interns Mina Turunc and Madeline Baird worked with ISAW curatorial assistant Carl Walsh...

NYU museum studies interns Mina Turunc and Madeline Baird worked with ISAW staff to create 2 vitrines of NYU collections materials exploring the myth and history of Madinat al-Zahra. See them on the 2nd fl during public lectures and events at ISAW @isawnyu.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

Detail of a broken plate of a pale colour which has the outline of fish and birds painted in black and red lines

Something fishy

A detail of a very fragmentary Coptic plate, probably of the 5th century, the team has found at the Paphos theatre site in Cyprus from post-theatre contexts. It was quite smashed up before amazing conservation work by the team.
#archaeology 🏺 #classicalbluesky

NE low NE low on Momento360 - click to view in 360

Happy Thanksgiving from the Amheida team! Here’s a shot of us excavating rooms 3 and 4 of the church (B7). Now you can give it a whirl thanks to the ingenious Bruno Bazzani! momento360.com/e/u/cdeaa5a6... #amheida #dakhla #egypt #archaeology

Das Photo zeigt die hölzerne Flasche, sie hat eine runde Form und einen schmalen Standfuß. Auf der Schulter befinden sich zwei Henkel.

Auch diese frühmittelalterliche hölzerne Flasche ist derzeit in "THE hidden LÄND " zu sehen. Sie war einst mit Starkbier gefüllt, das mit Honig angereichert wurde. Die Zugabe von Honig erhöhte den Alkoholgehalt des Bieres und half auch dabei, die alkoholische Gärung...1/2

While the Pergamon Museum continues to be closed for renovations, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Studio Blank, and Pixelcloud have published ‘Babylon Reloaded’ a 3D tour of the permanent Museum of the Ancient Near East exhibition.
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Photograph looking directly down on an archaeologist gently brushing a Roman mosaic which is long and narrow and features a pattern design

Some of the Paphos Theatre Archaeological Project team slowly revealing a late 4th-early 5th cent mosaic to the west of the theatre. Paphos, Cyprus #MosaicMonday
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The Amheida Excavations Featured in the New York Times In 2023 the NYU Amheida Excavations completed the excavation of a fourth-century funerary church at the site of ancient Trimithis in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt. The archaeology of the church was the su...

To everything turn, turn, turn. There is a time to be featured, and a time to end a news cycle with a blog post. Looking forward to the next discovery at #amheida. But if you missed the news: isaw.nyu.edu/news/amheida... @nyupress.bsky.social #egypt #dakhla #archaeology

Archeologists Unearth Clues About Life in the Roman Empire, and Early Christianity, in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis "What could explain a settlement of this size all the way out here?" asks project director David Ratzan of NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Interview with Director David Ratzan (ISAW/NYU) on where the NYU Amheida excavations have been and where they are headed in their 3rd decade after their 7th book (Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt's Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church: Volume 1, The Excavations): www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

A blue spherical bead in the form of a hedgehog curled up in a defensive ball. Made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material with a shiny blue glaze. The hedgehog’s face, ears, feet and tail are shown in relief, and the quills are shown by black dots painted over the surface. A hole for threading runs through the sphere

Ancient Egyptian blue faience bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙

Middle Kingdom, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

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Conference program over four pages

The program for the Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology conference (POCA2024) which kicks off later today. I believe zoom registration is still possible. Always inspiring to see the work of the next generation of Cypriot archaeologists
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Belt buckles with Christian symbols and motifs are frequently discovered in men's graves from the 6th and 7th centuries AD, a time when Christianity was spreading in southern Germany.
This particular example, skillfully carved from a whale rib, presents a depiction the...🧵1/2

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Congrats to Nicola Aravecchia on the publication of Early Christianity at Amheida (Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis), A Fourth-Century Church, Volume 1 (Amheida VII) from ISAW and the @nyupress.bsky.social. Press release here: isaw.nyu.edu/news/amheida...

The NYU Amheida Excavations are pleased to join the Bluesky community! We will be pushing out some updates over the next few days. Looking forward to joining the conversation!