December 2024 News

Yale-NELC Cuneiform Commentaries Project received award from the National Endowment for the Humanities
July 19, 2015
In the summer of 2015 the Yale’s Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP) directed by Professor Eckart Frahm was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to prepare the online publication of an...
Yale-affiliated Assyriologists at the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Warsaw, Poland in 2014.
September 14, 2014
Every year the International Association of Assyriology organizes the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI) conference to bring together Assyriologists from all over the world.  The 60th edition of the RAI held in...
GNSS Survey at Aswan
August 17, 2014
Through the digital and archaeological work of Alberto Urcia, Associate Research Scientist, Yale-NELC has continued the collaboration with The Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project (AKAP) which is a joint venture between...
Graeco-Arabica Conference to commemorate the centennial of Franz Rosenthal
July 16, 2014
In April 2014 Professor Dimitri Gutas organized a Graeco-Arabica conference to commemorate the centennial of the late Professor Franz Rosenthal. The conference was hosted by Yale-NELC under the title Graeco-Arabica, Present...
Earliest Image of Egyptian Ruler with “White Crown” of Royalty
August 17, 2012
The earliest known image of an Egyptian ruler wearing the “White Crown” associated with Egyptian dynastic power has been brought to light by an international team of archaeologists led by Egyptologists from Yale University....
Oldest Rock Art in Egypt Discovered by Belgian Team and Yale’s Darnell
November 10, 2011
Using a new technology known as optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), a team of Belgian scientists and Professor John Coleman Darnell of Yale have determined that Egyptian petroglyphs found at the east bank of the Nile...