On Wednesday,13 January 2016, Jason Ur, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, will give the A.K. Grayson Lecture on Assyrian History and Culture for the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies:

CITIES AND LANDSCAPES OF ASSYRIA: NEW RESEARCH IN THE IMPERIAL CORE

In August 2012 a new Harvard University archaeological research project began in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq.  This area was the core of the Neo-Assyrian empire (ca. 900-600 BC), which at its greatest stretched from Egypt to Iran.  The Erbil Plain...

This exhibition, curated by Harvard University students, faculty, and staff in 2009, explored the uses of aerial and satellite imaging not only to examine ancient cities in the Middle East and South America, but also to view these sites in context, as systems or landscapes, in relation to other sites nearby. These images reveal the extent of Assyrian imperial irrigation in Iraq, forty-five-hundred-year-old track networks in northeastern Syria, and the transient passages of...

Effective October 1st, I'll assume directorship of the Center for Geographic Analysis.  Read more here.

The Harvard GSAS magazine Colloquy has published a well-illustrated story on Kurdistan and EPAS by writer Siddhartha Mutter.  You can download the entire issue here.

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