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Aerial view (looking north-west) of the temples of Hatshepsut and Mentuhotep II in Deir el-Bahari, Luxor West Bank, Egypt. Photograph by Patricia Mora Riudavets
May 28, 2026
Defining Monuments Text by YaleNews staff: Lisa Prevost, Peter Cunningham, and Jessica Liu. Photograph by Patricia Mora Riudavets; licensed use only. Why are some buildings considered “monumental” — and others not...
Eight PhD students named 2025-26 Prize Teaching Fellows
May 4, 2026
Egyptology graduate student Beth Wang is among eight PhD students from the Graduate School who have been named Prize Teaching Fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year. The Prize Teaching Fellowship recognizes...
Arabic program talk spans historical calligraphy, speaker’s new style
October 3, 2025
Text by Lena Katir, Yale Daily News Yale’s Arabic program invited students and community members into the world of Arabic calligraphy through a Wednesday morning event with the award-winning Iraqi-born calligrapher...
Jon Beltz wins 2025 best article award
October 1, 2025
Jon Beltz, a graduate of Yale-NELC’s PhD program in Assyriology, has won the 2025 prize for the best Assyriological article written after the PhD from the International Association for Assyriology. Jon received the...
The students experimented with making ancient brews using replicas of ceramic vessels that scholars think might have been used to brew beer in Mesopotamia.
April 30, 2025
Text by Mike Cummings, YaleNews For several hours on a recent Friday morning, a Yale laboratory became a Bronze Age brewery. Inside the lab, in the Yale Chemistry Research Building, a group of students attempted to...