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Astrolabe (© stock.adobe.com), Egypt mummified animal (© wikimedia commons)
October 10, 2017
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...
Professor Kevin van Bladel joins Yale-NELC
August 17, 2017
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...
Professor Emeritus William Kelly Simpson 1928-2017.
March 31, 2017
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...
Yale Babylonian Collection received two major donations in 2016.
December 16, 2016
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...
Ritual Landscape and Performance Conference at Yale on September 23 and 24, 2016
October 16, 2016
On September 23 – 24, 2016 Yale in Egypt and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Yale University hosted a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the Ritual Landscape and...
An American Orientalist: the Life and Legacy of Edward E. Salisbury (1814-1901)
September 16, 2016
In 1841 the Yale Corporation appointed alumnus Edward Elbridge Salisbury (class of 1832) as professor of Arabic and Sanskrit languages and literature, the first such position in the Americas. This exhibit marks the 175th...