Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and historical record of Iran’s most ancient civilizations….
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NELC professor emeritus, Giorgio Buccellati, and archaeologist Marilyn Buccellati celebrate nearly 60 years together while continuing groundbreaking archaeological work in Syria
Published: October 27, 2022Giorgio Buccellati, professor emeritus of history and Near Eastern languages and director of the Mesopotamian Lab at UCLA, and archaeologist and professor Marilyn Buccellati, met nearly sixty years ago at…
Read MoreBuccellatis win the 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Published: March 4, 2022The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures is thrilled to announce that our own Dr. Giorgio Buccellati and Dr. Marilyn Kelly Buccellati of the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology…
Read MoreEgyptology Student Wins 2018 Grad Slam Competition
Published: March 8, 2018Marissa Stevens, Egyptology Graduate Student, won UCLA’s 2018 Grad Slam Competition last night, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Grad Slam is a campus-wide competition that showcases and awards the best 3-minute…
Read MoreUCLA Recruitment: Assistant Professor in Early Judaism
Published: August 1, 2017The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in early Judaism at the rank of Assistant…
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