So, it's been a while. I definitely don't have time to maintain a journal online like I used to, and with giving myself the freedom not to post all my books, I also haven't been keeping up with event posts. But the thing about that is that I've got Goodreads for book tracking, but I genuinely use LJ/DW for capturing memories about events. So here's ( Read more... )

Last night the AW and I finally got back to a museum lecture! Here's the description:

Gilgamesh: Journeys to the End of the WorldSteve Tinney, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania ( Read more... )

Last night the Archaeology Wife and I attended a lecture on the Trojan War at the Penn Museum. It's the first lecture I've been to since the baby, and if I had to pick one lecture to go all year, this was the perfect one. The speaker was our favorite archaeologist, C. Brian Rose, who gave the very first lecture that AW and I attended back in 2010 ( Read more... )

Lecture Description:

Ötzi the Iceman: The Puzzle of a 5300 Year-old Alpine Mummy ( Read more... )

Last week was the first Penn Museum event of the new year! This one was made extra special by the fact that Heather was in town and joined the AW and me for the lecture. Yay! Here's the description:

El Dorado in the Americas: a Wild Dream or Actual Fact ( Read more... )

Last night I attended this month's Penn Museum lecture: Merlin's Magic Circles: Stonehenge and the use of the Preseli Bluestones, from special guest speaker Timothy Darvill of Bournemouth University in the UK. Here's the description of the lecture:

Stonehenge in central southern England is known the world over as an iconic symbol of Europe’s ( Read more... )

This week's archaeology lecture was fantastic. Here's the description:

Of all bible stories, perhaps the story of Noah's ark and the world-ending flood are the most widely known. Modern scholars have noted the resemblance of the story to one which appears in the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh dating back to the seventh century BCE. While believers ( Read more... )

On Wednesday night the Archaeology Wife and I went to this season's first archaeology lecture at the Penn Museum! This year's theme is Great Riddles in Archaeology, and this week's topic was King Arthur, Camelot and the Quest for a Holy Grail. Here's the description:

For centuries, the legend of King Arthur, Camelot and the quest for the Holy ( Read more... )

I realized that in all the hustle and bustle of the last two weeks, I never posted about the archaeology lecture! Here's the description:

Looking East from Constantinople: Byzantium and the Silk Road
Medieval Constantinople was the greatest emporium of the eastern Mediterranean, where East and West came together. After a brief overview of the ( Read more... )

This lecture was really terrific! Here's the description:

Dr. Fredrik Hiebert, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., and curator of the exhibition "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul", provides the back-story to the Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul recent re-discovery of ( Read more... )