While busy founding Harvard’s Semitic Museum, organizing several archeological expeditions to the Near East, establishing the Division of Semitic Languages and History, holding a sequence of prestigious professorships, and playing an outsized part in the life of the university, David Gordon Lyon (1852–1935) also found the time to write over 38 volumes of diaries. These...
Invited keynote address on the future of museum publishing to the 16th National Museum Publishing Seminar, Boston Park Plaza Hotel (June 12–14, 2014). For the lecture video, click here.
Lecture given at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.
Clear, accurate, and aesthetically pleasing illustrations are an indispensable part of the epigrapher's and archaeologist's toolkit. This talk explores the history, development, and current methodology behind archaeological illustration as applied to Egyptology, but applicable to some degree to other fields as well. Egyptian epigraphy is defined as the creation of facsimile line drawings of wall scenes and inscriptions for publication—in both traditional, and now electronic forms. Digital methods will be...
Applying the 3D perspectives to the architectural puzzles of Giza, Peter Der Manuelian, professor of Egyptology at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, explores the cultural landscape of ancient Egypt (July 23, 2013). For a 3:43 minute audio slide show, click here. For more about the project "Histoires courtes,"...
What if you could enter a decorated tomb chapel in a Giza pyramid, descend down an ancient burial shaft, or see 5,000-year-old inscriptions come to life—without ever having to travel? Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is leading an effort to digitize the extensive archives available from sites in Giza to make remote antiquities more accessible. He draws on 3-D technology in Harvard's Visualization Center at the Geological Museum to create a real-time, interactive model of the pyramid site so students can immerse...
