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Speaker: Barbara LeskoEgyptologist Barbara S. Lesko has devoted much of her long career to researching and writing about the women of ancient Egypt. Her Remarkable Women of Ancient Egypt was the first book in the English language on the subject and has gone into three editions since appearing in 1978. Since then she has published Women’s Earliest Records, the proceedings of a 1987 international conference she organized with NEH support at Brown University (where she was in the Department of…See More

Speaker: Renata HolodThe original excavation of Chingul Kurgan was conducted in 1981 near the village of Zamozhne in the Zaporizhska oblast of southern Ukraine. It uncovered the grave of a nomadic khan, the leader of the Turkic steppe people known in Slavic sources as the Polovtsy, as Qipchaks in Islamic sources, and as Cumans in Greek and Latin texts. This people dominated the steppe zone of western Eurasia from the end of the eleventh century until the Mongol invasion of the 1230’s. The…See More

Speaker: Gregory AldreteFor nearly 1,000 years, one of the most common forms of protection used by ancient Mediterranean warriors, including the armies of the Greeks and Alexander the Great, was the linothorax, a type of body armor apparently made out of linen. Due to the perishable nature of its material, however, no examples have survived, and today it is poorly understood, and is known only through fragmentary descriptions in literature and images on pottery and sculpture. Employing only the…See More