Past Classes

2025

Communicating Across Time

Handy Hieroglyphs: a beginners guide to impressing friends and colleagues (in museums)

Exhibiting the East: Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and 1933 Century of Progress

Hittite Literature

Introduction to Coptic Part One and Two

2024

Babylonian Religion and Mythology

Introduction to Hieroglyphs Part One and Two

Ancient Coins: An Introduction

Continuing Demotic

Introduction to Demotic

Introduction to Late Egyptian

 

Color in Ancient ArtThis class looked at color in ancient art - how ancient people perceived it, how they created color, and how we understand, reconstruct, and conserve color on ancient objects today. This class was featured in the Spring 2024 UChicago Magazine. Read more here.

2023

Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt Old Kingdom to New Kingdom

Introduction to Hieratic

Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls