Leah Packard-Grams, a current AHMA student, has been studying a set of papyri in the Center for Tebtunis Papyri written by a single scribe, to understand the materialities of his scribal practice, including the ink and pen that he used. Her work, and that of AGRS alum Will Sieving, was recently highlighted by Berkeley News.
The Howell Bible Collection consists of approximately 300 rare books, primarily Bibles, dating largely from the 15th through the 18th centuries. The core of the Institute's collection consists of materials from Tell en-Nasbeh Palestine excavated under the direction of Dr. William Badè between 1926 and 1935. Of the hundreds of lamps, pitchers, bowls, jars, and jewelry and cosmetic items found in the ruins of the city, about half were deposited at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, while others were shipped to Berkeley. Those on display in the Badè Museum provide graphic evidence of...
Established in 2017, The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies (TCSRS) is apart of the Institute of East Asian Studies. The TCSRS is dedicated to advancing research and teaching on the historical overland and maritime exchange networks commonly referred to as the Silk Roads. Scholars frequently remain narrowly focused on particular regions without thinking about larger eurasian cultrual and economic networks. The TCSRS provides a forum for academics to explore trans-national, trans-regional, cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary approaches to their research and understanding...
The Townsend Humanities Lab is a community-driven digital resource offering a suite of Web 2.0 tools to foster interdisciplinary teaching, research, and collaboration among Berkeley scholars and their affiliates. The Lab offers tools for project organization and communication (event listings, file sharing, news broadcasts, and RSS feeds), as well as newer collaborative tools for text and image annotation, visualizations, mapping, and collaborative authoring.
The RMCL is a dedicated facility located on the UC Berkeley Campus in Dwinelle Hall, Room 310B (top floor/Level G, inside Suite 310). It is available for use by UC Berkeley faculty and students pursuing research involving Roman material culture.
The facility contains a work table, storage cabinets, bookshelves, a file cabinet, a map case and a computer table with two desktop computer (PC) work stations. The two computers are provided with software useful for the study of material culture, including Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative...
The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology has extensive holdings of ancient artifacts, including Classical material, cuneiform tablets and an ancient Egyptian collection of more than 17,000 objects.
The mission of the Archaeological Research Facility is to support archaeological field and laboratory research undertaken by U.C. Berkeley archaeologists and related specialists. Currently, 36 U.C. Berkeley faculty members from 10 departments and Organized Research Units are active participants in the ARF. The ARF operates some laboratory facilities, and offers equipment and funding support to campus archaeologists (including graduate students). The ARF also publishes a newsletter and a publication series; oversees over $1,000,000.00 in endowments; sponsors a lecture series that attracts...