How to mummify something. How to build an astrolabe. Those are topics that one would not normally think of when reading a Yale course catalogue, but in each of these courses, these new faculty members in the Department of...
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University is delighted to announce that Kevin van Bladel, a specialist in Arabic, Iranian languages, and Syriac, will begin teaching at Yale in the fall of...
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University is sad to report that William Kelly Simpson (B.A. 1947, M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1954), Professor Emeritus of Egyptology, died on March 24, 2017. He...
By Agnete Lassen
The Yale Babylonian Collection saw a significant increase in its holdings through two major donations in 2016. A donation by Olga and William David in memory of Nazim and Elias Solomon David included more...
