Tracking Ancient Immigration through Teeth
Gina Buckley looks for skeletal traces of elite and working-class immigration at Teotihuacan
Behind the Scenes: Time-Traveling to Seventeenth-Century Holland
Dutch Golden Age masterpiece loaned to Dumbarton Oaks
Peripheral Lands, Contested Histories
Zeynep Kezer studies Elazığ, Tunceli, and the making of modern Turkey from the margins
Eastern Knowledge, Latin Letters
John Mulhall finds medieval translators who sought to remedy Latin deficiency with Greek and Arabic texts
From Paradise to Pompeii
Annette Giesecke finds Near Eastern inspiration for luxurious ancient Roman gardens
Digging into the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library: Spotlight on Ælfric’s “Old English Lives of Saints”
From cross-dressing monks to the walking dead, everything old is new again
A Typology of Gifts
Daniel Caner untangles dirty wealth, fruit-bearings, and Christian philanthropy
Digitally Traversing Global Plant Histories
Virtual Plant Humanities Summer Program brought diverse disciplines, resources, and scholars together to create timely plant narratives
Breaking Your Oath
Savvas Kyriakidis talks tyrants, trial by hot iron, and social relationships in Byzantium
Retelling the Fall of Tenochtitlan
Felipe Ledesma-Núñez discusses the fall of the Aztec Empire, based on Nahua accounts of the epidemics brought by Spanish invaders
Reviving an Eighth-Century Coptic Chronicle
Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga shifts our understanding of what constitutes a Byzantine person
Black Lives Matter
Statement from The Harvard College Office of Admissions & Financial Aid in support of the Black Lives Matter movement
Juneteenth
June 16, 2020 | Statement from Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow on the commemoration and significance of Juneteenth