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"Antikyran Hellebore in the Time of Caligula"

Check out a recently published article by Archaia Steering Committee member Dr. Andrew Koh, Peabody Museum Scientist, featured in Proceedings of the European Academy of...

"The Pharmacopeia of Ancient Egyptian Alabaster Vessels: A Transdisciplinary Approach with Legacy Artifacts" Andrew Koh

Check out a recently published article by Archaia Steering Committee member Dr. Andrew Koh, Peabody Museum Scientist, featured in Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology...

Fall 2025 Ancient Societies Workshop Speaker Schedule

Attached is our Fall 2025 speaker guests and dates. An annoucement of each will be made with information as usual as we get closer to each event.  For questions, please email...

“‘Nothing Beside Remains’: Ephemerality and Endurance in Biblical Textuality,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 100/3-4 (2024): 409-426. By: Dr. Jacqueline Vayntrub

Here is something you may want to consider adding to your summer reading list depending on your studies: One of our very own steering committee faculty, Dr. Jacqueline...

Ancient Societies Workshop Speaker Schedule Spring 2025

Events will take place from 12:00-1:30 p.m. An announcement with info for each workshop will be listed on https://archaia.yale.edu/calendar. For more information please...

2023 Archaia Study Tour

ARCHAIA Study-abroad tour to Greece and Turkey, spring 2023 (written by: Elizabeth Hane) On April 29th, 2023, students in Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and...

Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future

March 31-April 2, 2022   ARCHAIA is pleased to announce Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future, a three-day conference event (March 31-April 2, 2022) arranged to celebrate the...

Recording of "Globalizing the History of Disease"

For those of you who missed Kyle Harper’s lecture on “Globalizing the History of Disease”, you may view it here: https://yale.zoom.us/rec/share/-...

Recording of "Stepping into the Same River Twice: Comparing the 1st and 2nd Plague Pandemics as Pan-Afro-Eurasian Events"

For those of you who missed Monica Green lecture today, you may view the recording here:   https://yale.zoom.us/rec/share/...

Recording of “The Genetic History of Plague: From the Stone Age to the 21st Century”

For those of you who missed Johannes Krause’s lecture on 12/3, you may view it here:  https://yale.zoom.us/rec/share/...

Recording of "Understanding Covid-19: Lessons From the Plague of Athens and the Spanish Influenza"

For those who missed Frank Snowden’s workshop, you may view here: https://yale.zoom.us/rec/share/9K1O-Weml2Lk3Sp0pnz4YRY02AYSVi6CusSPrgsxq5P-a_Rdj3CrSfbymVqqoybm....

Professor Maria Doerfler named among American Academy of Religion's 2021 Book Award Winners

Best First Book in the History of Religions Maria E. Doerfler Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity University of...