Enjoy a fun, informative hour with Director Lauren Lessing and her husband Uri Lessing as they dive into the details of a work from the museum’s collection and bring it to life. This week, Lauren …

Catherine Fletcher (Manchester Metropolitan University): "Luxury Handguns at the Renaissance Courts" By the early sixteenth century, handguns had become an important technology of warfare. European cultural attitudes towards these new objects were ambivalent. In literature …

Christina E. Crawford provides historical context to situate present-day destruction of architecturally rich Kharkiv, the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-34). In the 1920s, buildings designed according to constructivist principles were erected …

Please join the Friends of the ICMA for the fourth in a series of special online events on Wednesday, June 1st at 12:00 p.m. ET (9:00 a.m. PT; 5:00 p.m. BST; and 6:00 p.m. CET) with the …

Dr. Irving Finkel returns to Zoom for a talk hosted by Archaeology Now about the “people between the rivers” — the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, that is. Were the people of ancient Mesopotamia so …