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Archaeology

Jacob Lauinger and Meg Swaney with students
Near Eastern Studies
Dispatch from 15th century BCE
Published Winter 2024
JHU researchers investigate a recently unearthed cuneiform tablet dating back to 15th century BCE. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Alphabetic text on a beadlike stone form
Archaeology
Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed
Published Nov 21, 2024
Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries
Kara Cooney
Near Eastern Studies
Disruptor of the pharaohs
Published Fall 2023
Egyptologist Kara Cooney wants us to stop romanticizing ancient Egypt / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Mufasa Cruz Moreno writes out a toe tag
Lives lost to hostile terrain
Published Nov 15, 2021 Photos
The 3,200 toe tags of the Hostile Terrain 94 art instillation aim to "rehumanize" migrants who have died while crossing the Sonoran Desert
Alphabetic text inscribed on a beadlike form
Archaeology
Dead letters
Published July 13, 2021
Alphabetic writing may have begun 500 years earlier than believed
Cohen Mummy
Faces from long ago
Published Fall 2018
Archaeological Museum exhibit focuses on reconstructing the faces—and dignity—of two mummies / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Girl holding rock with gloves on
Summer of discovery
Days at the museum
Published Aug 7, 2017
Hopkins students help search for historical artifacts at site of Homewood Museum excavation project
Ancient ceramics
Mysteries of the Attic
Published Oct 9, 2015
Students re-create ancient Greek ceramics
Q+A
'Place of discovery'
Published Jan 25, 2015
JHU team continues excavation, conservation efforts at ancient Egyptian burial site
Mine find
Ancient horse, rhino relative unearthed
Published Nov 20, 2014
Fossil found in Indian, dated to more than 50 million years ago sheds light on evolution of 'odd-toed ungulates' / Hopkins Medicine