Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027-29

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Italy returns the 2,300-year-old François Tomb frescoes to the public, placing a masterpiece of Etruscan art on display in Rome.

This editorial introduction explains the rationale for this journal and its place in the current research landscape of late antique studies. While this field has “exploded”, different specialisms and disciplines continue to approach the period through ...

Between the third and seventh centuries CE, the Sasanian Empire became one of the most dominant powers in the ancient world—extending geographically from West to Central Asia—and was the last major power in the region before the Arab conquest in the seventh century. In November 2022, in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art convened “The Sasanians in Context: Art, History, and Archaeology,” a symposium of scholars discussing the latest research on the Sasanian Empire and its rich material culture—from impressive rock reliefs to elaborately designed metal vessels and finely carved seals—and exploring the empire’s legacy beyond its core regions. The symposium underscored how the field has evolved and revealed new areas for future research.Contributors: Antonietta Catanzariti, Anca Dan, Touraj Daryaee, Shervin Farridnejad, Mariachiara Gasparini, Frantz Grenet, Prudence O. Harper, Almut Hintze, Ani Honarchian, Judith A. Lerner, Hamidreza Mazaheri, Negin Miri, Yousef Moradi, Kianoosh Motaghedi, Cyrus Nasrollahzadeh, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Mehrnoush Soroush, and Giusto Traina