Ancient World

The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University announced today the appointment of Clare Fitzgerald, PhD, as associate director for exhibitions and gallery curator, effective March 12, 2018. Fitzgerald will lead ISAW's acclaimed program of exhibitions exploring themes related to ISAW's mission to foster study and understanding of the...

The Trustees of the Leon Levy Foundation proudly gather for the unveiling of a new plaque stating: The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World has its roots in the passion of Shelby White and Leon Levy for the art and history of the ancient world. Following their vision, in 2006 the Leon Levy...

The New York Times - The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, a branch of New York University ensconced in a townhouse off Fifth Avenue, is an academic institution that welcomes doctoral students and visiting scholars and hosts small, concentrated exhibitions of antiquities from Greece, Rome, Byzantium and Persia. It is not where...

The Wall Street Journal - Many of our ideas about Minoan civilization—drawn largely from the ruins of Knossos—are, at least in part, products of artful imagination. Some three decades ago—an eye blink in archaeological time—I looked out over the ancient ruins of Knossos in Crete, accompanied by a bus-load of tourists and a voluble...

The Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications is housed at the Harvard Semitic Museum, which hosted the closing celebration for ASOR 2017 in Boston. Assistant Program Coordinator Peter Mueller presented the program's recently redesigned website and many of the nearly 150 publications sponsored by the program...

The New Yorker - The British archeologist Sir Arthur Evans began excavating at Knossos, in Crete, in 1900. Based on what he found, he “reconstituted” what he believed to be the labyrinthine palace that Daedalus built to house the Minotaur, employing hundreds of artisans to rebuild a lost world whose aesthetic bore a surprising resemblance...

The Times of Israel - Decades after its discovery, country's 'finest' tile art will be displayed to the public at the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center upon its projected completion in 2019. The richly colorful, late third century-early fourth century Roman period mosaic was discovered accidentally during salvage excavations in 1996...

The British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) fundamentally shaped our understanding of the Minoan world. He excavated the so-called Palace of Minos on the island of Crete and came to believe he had found the remnants of Daidalos's mythological labyrinth, home to the Minotaur. As the first person to recognize the distinctiveness of the Minoans,...

The New York Times -  When the Islamic State was about to be driven out of the ancient city of Palmyra in March, Yves Ubelmann got a call from Syria’s director of antiquities to come over in a hurry. An architect by training, Mr. Ubelmann, 36, had worked in Syria before the country was...