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ISAW is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, which aims to encourage particularly the study of the economic, religious, political, and cultural connections between ancient civilizations.
ISAW News Blog
1M ago
Congratulations to ISAW graduate students Allyson Blanck and Manolis Mavromatis for receiving an award from the Scholars Program of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA ..read more
ISAW News Blog
2M ago
The International Academy of the History of Sciences recently announced that one of the two winners of the 2023 Young Historians Prize is Claire Bubb, ISAW’s Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science ..read more
ISAW News Blog
2M ago
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press are pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume from ISAW Monographs, The Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou VII: The Greek and Roman Pottery, by Antonis Kotsonas ..read more
ISAW News Blog
2M ago
ISAW is delighted to announce that the proceedings of ‘Material Worlds: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Contacts and Exchange in the Ancient Near East’, edited by Arnulf Hausleiter, was published by Archaeopress Archaeology in December 2023. The workshop was originally held at ISAW on 7th March 2016, with contributions delivered by 11 leading experts in their respective fields ..read more
ISAW News Blog
5M ago
On Friday, 3 November 2023, ISAW released version 3.2 of Pleiades Datasets, a free, open, and platform-neutral collection of spatial, historical, archaeological, and bibliographic information about 40,418 ancient places and spaces derived from the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places ..read more
ISAW News Blog
6M ago
Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and historical record of Iran’s most ancient civilizations. Prof. D.T. Potts brings together history, archaeology, and social anthropology to provide an overview of what we can know about the kith and kinship ties in Iran, from prehistory to Elamite, Achaemenid, and Sasanian times ..read more
ISAW News Blog
7M ago
Expanding the Ancient World: K-12, a professional development program for K-12 teachers, is starting its second year, and we are excited to announce the fall schedule of events. These free events will take place on zoom, and registration is required. CTLE hours are available for New York State educators. We hope you can join us ..read more