Congratulations to Prof. William Granara, who has been chosen as a...

From the Harvard Foundation:

Ali Asani is the [Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and] Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures in the Committee on the Study of Religion and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. The Foundation honors Professor Asani with the...

Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, has just been awarded funding through the spring 2019 competition of the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship for his project, ...

Renowned Mesopotamian...

Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, has just been awarded a $3000 Harvard University Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities. This will be used to augment and enhance our free Egyptian...

James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History and Chair of the Department Khaled El-Rouayheb has recently published a major (even monumental) contribution to the field, titled "The Development of Arabic Logic 1200-1800" and published by Schwabe.

Congratulations, Khaled!

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Professor Peter Der Manuelian hosted the production team behind documentary on ‘Ten Commandments’ mystery titled The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

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Professor Peter Der Manuelian's project, A Transformative Paradigm for Research and Teaching: Augmented Reality and Ancient Mesopotamia, was selected among over thirty compelling proposals submitted by fellow faculty members to receive funding in the amount of $46,000. Congratulations, professor Manuelian!!

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The “Dream Stela” of King Thutmose IV stands today between the front legs of the Sphinx at Giza, Egypt. Professors and curators at The Harvard Semitic Musuem have used advanced techniques to reproduce the stela and Sphinx - the former physically and latter in virtual reality. 

View the video introduction on the Harvard University YouTube page. 

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Gojko Barjamovic and colaborators Thomas Chaney, Kerem A. Cosar, and Ali Hortacsu, developed an algorithm based on trade data from 12,000 ancient clay tablets. The results help corroborate the historical location of 11 lost Bronze Age cities.

“In a rare example of collaboration across disciplines, we use a theory-based quantitative method from economics to inform this quest in the field...