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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sat down with Ashur Bet Oshana and Assyrian Times in the Khorsabad Court Gallery at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. Grateful for the conversation 🖤🙏 youtu.be/GvBeqswY6wI?...

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Inside Ancient Assyria with Dr. Kiersten Neumann : Assyrian Times #history #ancient

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

In May 2026, I had the honor of delivering the commencement address for my alma mater, the Department of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures at UC Berkeley. I’ve since had a number of requests to share what I said, so I’ve posted the speech—titled “In Pursuit of Awe:” tinyurl.com/inpursuitofawe

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Stones in all their glory, explored in my latest paper “What’s in a name? Material self-referentiality, aesthetic values and stone classifications” 💎🪨✨ www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36... (open access) #aesthetics #materiality #classification #mesopotamia

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

And many thanks to @uclpress.bsky.social for working with us and ensuring an open access volume!

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It’s here 📖 ✍️ “Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures” is out today from UCL Press— in print & free open access PDF. Co-editing it with Jay and Eduardo, in honor of Niek Veldhuis, has been one of the most meaningful projects. uclpress.co.uk/book/scribal...

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Scribal Worlds

Scribal Worlds: Scholarship and classification in cuneiform cultures delves into the history of the earliest writing cultures of the ancient Middle East, bridging disciplines that include ancient hist...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My latest for @asor_research’s ANE Today: “Severed Spaces: Documenting Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iran”—on Cultural Heritage Watch, an interactive database launched by ISAC’s CAMEL in partnership w/ the Society of Iranian Archaeology. anetoday.org/cultural-her...

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Middle East Cultural Heritage at Risk in Armed Conflict

Interactive map for documenting, monitoring, and preserving cultural heritage sites at risk in armed conflict across the Middle East.

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Cold-blooded creatures of Nubia 🐍🐢🐸🐊🦎—my recent publication on reptiles and amphibians in the “A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia” ISAC Museum exhibit catalogue: www.academia.edu/165950922/Re...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Grateful to contribute to “Middle East Cultural Heritage at Risk in Armed Conflict Project”, a new effort with ISAC’s CAMEL Lab mapping heritage sites damaged by the ongoing conflict—already documenting 70 sites in Iran, with more expected as information becomes available: heritagewatch.camelab.net

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A celebration of the extraordinary depth and beauty of Iranian history & culture ✨💙 “Ancient Iran in the ISAC Museum: From Prehistory to the Achaemenid Period” by Abbas Alizadeh, Research Assoc Prof of Iranian Archaeology. Download & purchase: isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/ISACMP/isacmp3

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Nowruz—a time to celebrate the Persian New Year and Persian culture at the ISAC Museum 🌺 🔥 🎶 Drop in anytime from 1:00–3:00 pm for hands-on activities and gallery experiences, then join us at 3:00 pm for live music from the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble. Register: isacnowruz2026.eventbrite.com

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

✨🎨 Now available for all your coloring dreams — “Megiddo Ivories Coloring Book” 🖍️✨ Created for the ISAC Museum special exhibition “Megiddo: A City Unearthed, A Past Imagined” (Sep 18, 2025–Mar 15, 2026) — 32 pages, Softcover, $7.99, ISBN: 978-1-61491-134-0 ▶️ isac.uchicago.edu/research/pub...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Thanks @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social! Checkout my latest article “From Armageddon to Chicago: The Legacy of the University of Chicago’s Megiddo Expedition" in the new issue of NEA!

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Snapshots of “Allspice: Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures” (May 13–Oct 31, 2025) @ the Acropolis Museum. Also very fun to see my ISAC object labels displayed with their Greek-translation counterparts 😆 🇬🇷 #michaelrakowitz #restorativejustice www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/allspice-...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thrilled to be celebrating the installation of J.L. Smith’s Persepolis Paintings in the ISAC Museum’s Persian Gallery! I’ll speak about Smith & the history of the paintings’ creation & display before being joined in conversation with 3 exceptional conservators who’ve helped make this a reality 🖤🎨

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Joseph Lindon Smith’s Persepolis Paintings: Their Conservation & Exhibition

Join us to celebrate the new installation of Joseph Lindon Smith’s Persepolis Paintings in the ISAC Museum's Persian Gallery!

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Now available to stream: exhibition lecture “(Un)broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” presented live Jan 2024 in connection with ISAW exhibition, “Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq.” isaw.nyu.edu/events/archi...

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Exhibition Lecture: (Un)broken Continuity

This lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants.

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Tell me how this 19th-c. chair @brooklynmuseum.org is a perfect embodiment of Falkor, the luckdragon with big dopey eyes, scaly back and all, yet it predates both Michael Ende’s 1979 Die unendliche Geschichte book & Wolfgang Peterson’s 1984 The Neverending Story film?! 🐉 #theneverendingstory #falkor

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ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

ASOR will offer the Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship in 2025. The fellowship, valued at $5,000, is awarded to a scholar/poet/writer/artist whose project proposal comes closest in scope to Herbert Mason’s lifework and is in English. Applications are due March 3, 2025. Read more here: buff.ly/3C6HZw0

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HERBERT WARREN MASON FELLOWSHIP - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)

Herbert Warren Mason Fellowship ; ASOR Fellowships ; Mason Fellowship ; ASOR grants and fellowships ; Herbert Mason

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Christina Tsouparopoulou @christinatsoup.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

#Jobalert! I am looking for a #postdoc to join my team in Warsaw for 2 years. The project focuses on Material Religion in #Mesopotamia. You'll be working with Rafał Solecki, two research assistants, and me. The application deadline is coming up soon: 14 Jan wnhs.uksw.edu.pl/.../employme...

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Employment of Post-doctoral researcher – Wydział Nauk Historycznych UKSW

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The gift I didn’t know I needed 👽 🎅 😂 #merrychristmas #anunnaki

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So grateful both to ASOR & TARII for helping make the Tigris Travel Grant a success in its first year and to the three recipients—Jaafar Jotheri, Mustfaa Al-Hussainy, Hasan Ahmed Qasim Berwary—thank you for sharing your research & your company with us in Boston! Read more here: buff.ly/3Dm8jm6

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Join the fun! 🤩 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

It feels like a fitting day to share photos from a recent visit with the imaginative & masterful Syrian-American artist & architect #MohamadHafez to explore his work “Eternal Cities,” installed as part of the new Ancient Egypt & Mesopotamia Gallery at Yale Peabody Museum curated by Agnete Lassen. 1/

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

#SensesSunday a midkhan (incense burner) used to burn oud to scent the guest area, or majlis, where it was passed around to guests as a sign of hospitality, today on display in the National Museum of Qatar, Doha #incense #incenseburner #qatar

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Society for Classical Studies @scsclassics.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Applications for the 2023-2024 Contingent Faculty Grants are due December 31st! The grants provide professional development and financial assistance funds to contingent faculty who study or teach about the ancient Mediterranean and its reception: classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

Contingent Faculty Grants: The grants provide professional development and financial assistance funds to contingent faculty. All contingent faculty who study or teach about the ancient Mediterranean and its reception are eligible. Application Period: October 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023

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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Whipple Museum are recruiting for a Collections Assistant - offered for 5 years, fixed term due to funding. Wonderful collections and a brilliant team, this is a really excellent role for someone! #museumjobs 📜 #histsci www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49320/

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Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

“Masterpieces of the MANN,” a special exhibit currently on display at Maraya, #AlUla, showcasing collections from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, including those of Alexander III of Macedon, Trajan & Marcus Aurelias, and a mosaic replete with beautiful creatures 🐍 #SaudiArabia

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#SensesSunday Short circular ceramic incense burner from the Assyrian capital Dur-Šarrukin, Iraq, excavated by ISAC’s Khorsabad Expedition & recorded on this Catalog Card, in the ISAC Museum Archives 💨 🔥 #Assyria #Incense #Archives On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A monumental thanks to the entire ASOR team for yet another incredible annual meeting, hybrid and all! None of this would be possible without all of you. You go above and beyond, and always with a smile 😊 🙏🖤🙌 #ASOR2024 #ASORstaff Join us next year to celebrate ASOR’s 125th! 🍾

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thanks Harvard Art Museums, including Jen Thum & Carl Walsh, for hosting “The Museum is Your Classroom Workshop” for ASOR Annual Meeting attendees #asor2024 #museums #pedagogy

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

One more sleep until our Annual Meeting in Boston! Download our new app for information about sessions, workshops, business meetings, and special events being offered this year: buff.ly/4959W3D #asor24 #boston

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Inaugurating #SensesSunday with this beautiful orthostat relief showing a seated figure holding a lotus flower to his nose 🪷 👃. Before him stand two bullmen supporting a winged sun disk. Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you’re looking to dive into the highly sensorial world of the past, here’s 32 unique perspectives/chapters with which to do so!🪻🪔 💨 🎶 Forever grateful to all who contributed & supported this ambitious project 🖤 #sensorystudies #neareast Print/paperback/eBook: routledge.com/9780367235284

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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Case of the Day: TLINGIT TOTEM POLE In 1899, a sacred totem pole (Hoots Kooteeya) of the Bear Den of the Tlingit People was taken from the beach in front of Hoots-Hit house, Old Cape Fox Village, Alaska. mola.omeka.net/items/show/1...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

As we roll into winter, here are some warming views from a recent trip to Saudi Arabia for the AlUla World Archaeology Symposium… Hegra, before & during a sandstorm #ksa #arabia #otherworldly #desertlandscapes #nabataeantombs #jabalalbanat #jabalithlib #awas2024 #experiencealula

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It's exciting to see so many new joins in the last few days and to feel communities rebuilding. Here's a starter pack for museum professionals broadly... please reach out to be added! go.bsky.app/CQXG9A5 #museums #museumprofessionals #archaeology #culturalheritage #ancientworld

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Bonus fun fact about dogs in the ancient world. Possibly the earliest known images of dogs on leads appears in rock art from two utterly breathtaking heritage sites in Saudi Arabia — Shuwaymis and Jubbah www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you're into archaeology, the ancient world, and related fields, here are some starter packs you will like 🧵 1/? go.bsky.app/J2BAdwu

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Thanks to the Smart Museum for the invitation to participate in their 50th Anniversary Exhibition with a small bit of label text 🙏 Equally thankful to connect with these pieces in their collection by the forever fabulous #MichaelRakowitz from his series “The invisible enemy should not exist” 🖤

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Join this Wednesday at 5:30pm EST, “(Un)Broken Continuity: Counter-narratives of a Mesopotamian Past,” hosted virtually by ISAW. Register online to receive the link: isaw.nyu.edu/events/exhib....

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Open-access PDF now available for download: "'I Burn as Incense for You': Censers in Assyria and Beyond," in "Holy Smoke," edited by Beate Fricke. www.academia.edu/111948197/

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

“Recent Repatriation to the Republic of Yemen,” a new display @metmuseum of the stone sculptures, whose ownership has been restored to Yemen. At Yemen’s request, they remain at the museum on loan & are displayed as part of their repatriated heritage, www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/a...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Honored to be a contributor to this sensorially & beautifully designed volume, which is sold complete with carbon-paper wrapping: “When unpacking, an individual & unique cover design is created for each copy.” 💨 #holysmoke #censers #incense #aromatics #senses www.hirmerverlag.de/eu/titel-1-1...

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 30/11/2023

Works by Gaza artists and Palestinian children are now available for museums in the United States and Europe to borrow through a new initiative.

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New Initiative Invites Museums to Borrow Work by Palestinian Artists

“Many people are asking their institutions to speak up and not be silent,” said Faisal Saleh of the Palestine Museum US.

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

I WANNA BE CURATED – beautiful 🖤😅 #whenworldscollide "A consultant from the Smithsonian visited before opening, Fat Mike told me, but his ideas for multimedia displays and other pedagogical this and that didn’t make the cut." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/m...

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

“Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq,” @ ISAW, NYU; photos from my visit, part I: works by Hanaa Malallah, “Babylon Curse” (video & image series 1–4) & “Dove - Drone Hovering over Babylon Borsippa Twin Towers” (video), shown with Al Ani’s Babylon photos, 1961

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann @knpazuzu.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

"Looters continue to pillage Afghanistan’s rich archaeological heritage: Despite Taliban promises to protect sites, satellites show some active looting continues" doi: 10.1126/science.adm6789 @ScienceMagazine www.science.org/content/arti...

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