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25.01.2022 If you heard Dr Craig Barker’s recent NEAF lecture on Cyprus, you won’t want to miss his NESS seminar on Monday 14th September on "Severan Cyprus: some observations on the Roman archaeology of the island" NESS Convenor Holly Winter advises the seminar will take place at 4pm (AEST) on Zoom. ... Zoom Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/99544599882 Meeting Code: 995 4459 9882 Password: 002297

25.01.2022 It's National Archaeology Week! Celebrate by digging into talks at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney - see the link for the full programme https://www.sydney.edu.au///national-archaeology-week.html

22.01.2022 Only one more sleep! Dr Ted Robinson's lecture - 'Sicily; The Levant's Foothold in Sicily' tomorrow evening 6.30pm Don't miss a wonderful expedition to an intriguing ancient island: book herehttps://sophi-events.sydney.edu.au/calendar/neaf-lecture-19-05-2021/

18.01.2022 Tomorrow’s NESS - please tune in!

17.01.2022 Thanks Holly Winter for putting a great NESS Program together for this semester. See the flyer for details. Starts next Monday!

16.01.2022 Don’t miss this lecture! You can register through the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney link

10.01.2022 Free book! Olga Tufnell (190585) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine (Lachish, Tell el 'Ajjul, Tell Fara) in the 1920s and 1930s. This book by John Green and Ros Henry draws on personal letters and archives of the PEF, the Institute of Archaeology UCL, the British Museum and the Wellcome Trust to tell her story of archaeology, travel, and life in the Mandate era Middle East. You can download free at UCL Press https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/166544 @ The Palestine Exploration Fund The British Museum

06.01.2022 The ASOR Annual meeting, usually held in North America, is now a ‘virtual’ meeting this year. Find out more about program, registration and scholarship in this link. An opportunity for some to participate who otherwise wouldn’t be able to get there! ... http://www.asor.org/am/2020-registration/

06.01.2022 Congratulations to our past NEAF President Dr Wendy Reade : on her newly published ‘First Thousand Years of Glass Making in the Ancient Near East’- (Archaeopress)

03.01.2022 Still time to register! Dr. Stephen Bourke AM (Director of the Pella Excavation Project) will present our next NEAF Evening lecture on ‘Egypt and the East Mediterranean World in the International Age: Warfare, Trade and Foreign Relations’... Wednesday 2nd September 6.30pm by Zoom To Register https://sydney.onestopsecure.com/onestopweb/V9P/tran The Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1500 BCE) is arguably the first age of Internationalism, when maritime trade flourishes, and the various kingdoms of the Eastern Mediterranean begin to interact intensively. This is the time of the mighty Middle Kingdom (ca. 2000-1700 BCE) and the still enigmatic Hyksos period (1700-1550 BCE) in Egypt, that of independent Canaanite city-states along the Levantine littoral, the Hittite Old Kingdom in Anatolia, and the Minoan palace civilisation on Crete and across the Aegean islands. This lecture explores the nature and forms of this economic and cultural 'Internationalism' across the East Mediterranean basin. It looks initially at the widespread and largely unacknowledged Middle Kingdom influence beyond its borders, before moving on to explore the brilliant internationalism of the succeeding Hyksos period, which saw a unique culture develop in the eastern Nile delta, a fusion of Egyptian, Canaanite and Minoan elements. This outward facing culture opened Egypt to the world as never before, and ushered into being the Age of Empires that was to follow. Dr. Stephen Bourke directs the Pella Excavation Project. He has over forty years field experience in the Middle East, with interests ranging from Palaeolithic bio-archaeology, through ancient and modern ‘Battlefield’ study, although his central interests lie with the Bronze Age East Mediterranean world. He maintains a particular interest in the relationship between Egypt, the Levant and the Minoan world in the Second Millennium BCE, which recent discoveries at Pella have brought to the fore once more.

02.01.2022 Who is Idrimi of Aleppo? Dr Jamie Fraser tells a story of political intrigue, sibling rivalry, ambition, and the adventures of this fascinating Bronze Age Syrian identity, as inscribed on his own statue. Jamie Fraser, a NEAF Councillor, and Curator, Ancient Levant and Anatolia at the British Museum, is preparing for the BM’s reopening in London. NEAF appreciates the chance to see this video, produced for Members of the British Museum, about one of Jamie’s personal favourite ...pieces in the BM’s collection. Find out why! https://youtu.be/dc0iLacBmWY (PLEASE DON'T SHARE THIS POST - it was produced as as exclusive for the BM Membership, who have generously let us post it by approval on the NEAF webpage).