Harvard and the Ancient Near East: Digital Pioneers @ Harvard

August 14, 2014

Harvard and the Ancient Near East: The David Gordon Lyon Diaries

"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." see...

Sampling the scholar’s life - Harvard Gazette, 8/11/2014

August 11, 2014

"When he was in high school, Ozdemir Vayisoglu ’16 dug into the past, uncovering buried secrets at an archaeological site in his native Turkey. This summer, he was digging again. But instead of carefully sifting through dirt thousands of miles away, he was poring over archives at Harvard’s Semitic Museum.
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"Pharaons et nouvelles technologies" Historia, 5/1/2014

May 1, 2014

Historia, May 1, 2014. Features Professor Peter Manuelian's Giza project technology.

"Inside a Beating Silicon Heart" Forbes, 1/6/2014

January 6, 2014

At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Harvard professor Peter Der Manuelian is converting its impressive collection of photos, diaries, drawings and documents from Egypt’s Giza pyramids into 3-D models so he can take students inside the tombs for a realistic view of the Fourth Dynasty. Armed with that rich data and a 3-D printer, he’s even re-creating ancient Egyptian artifacts that had long since vanished....

Harvard Semitic Museum To Undergo New Changes, Harvard Crimson

October 22, 2013

Under the leadership of new director, Professor Peter Der Manuelian, and with the support of a new umbrella organization, Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, the Harvard Semitic Museum is set to launch an array of both structural and exhibitional developments in the coming years. Read complete article.

Harvard’s Semitic Museum is set for big changes Boston Globe 10/19/2013

October 19, 2013

"Among the many arresting objects in the collection of Harvard University’s Semitic Museum are three small bird mummies, which were collected from somewhere near Luxor, in Egypt, near the end of the 19th century. On Jan. 22 this year, all three were subjected to CT scans, or high resolution X-ray computed tomography, by Emma Sherratt, then a Harvard postdoctoral fellow."...