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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, 2022

Giorgio 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…

Buccellatis win the 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Published: March 4, 2022

The 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…

Egyptology Student Wins 2018 Grad Slam Competition

Published: March 8, 2018

Marissa 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…

UCLA Recruitment: Assistant Professor in Early Judaism

Published: August 1, 2017

The 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…

37 Questions with Kara Cooney

Published: November 16, 2016

NELC professor emeritus, Giorgio Buccellati, and archaeologist Marilyn Buccellati celebrate nearly 60 years together while continuing groundbreaking archaeological work in Syria

Buccellatis win the 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Egyptology Student Wins 2018 Grad Slam Competition

UCLA Recruitment: Assistant Professor in Early Judaism

37 Questions with Kara Cooney

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