Videos

Faster than Legolas! A historical technique much faster than what we have known. The Danish archer Lars Andersen has rediscovered an old and very fast way to shoot arrows from a bow. To compare speed, I have added four other good...

Sheila Hoffman says she is, "A female Robert Langdon (minus the tweed) with a museum fetish and a passion for all things archeo-religious. A curatorial-jedi and tech padawan. A sci-fi geek and early music enthusiast. A budding runner and...

Niobid Painter, "Niobid Krater," Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 460-50 B.C.E. (Musée du Louvre) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris

IAN JENKINS, PH.D. SENIOR CURATOR, DEPARTMENT OF GREECE AND ROME, BRITISH MUSEUM Jenkins explores Greek notions of ideal beauty in both nude and draped images of the male and female human bodies. He contrasts the moral aesthetic of sound...

Capitoline Brutus, 4th-3rd century B.C.E., bronze, 69 cm (Capitoline Museums, Rome) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, 532-37 (architects: Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles) A conversation with Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris

Christine Kondoleon, PhD., MFA/Boston, discusses what we can learn from narrative scenes (here, images of the battle of Troy) painted on a krater from 5th century BCE. This is a great video clip to share with students in the classroom.

Animation par morphing d'une scène de douche sur un vase grec. Morphing-based animation of a shower scene on a greek vase. Ce travail est intégré dans le film "Le parfum retrouvé" (Réalisation Luc Ronat, CNRS Images 2012, http://videotheque.cnrs.fr/doc=2855...

In 1896 Flinders Petrie discovered what is for many the most important achievement of his long and celebrated career as an archeologist. It is a large granite stela, over ten feet high, dating to 1208 BCE. This stone bears an account of how...