Lectures in Summer Term 2025
In spring 2025, the Academy Project KIŠIB. Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings will be launched at the Institute of for Near Eastern Archaeology.
The jointly realised academy project of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) in Munich and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin is allotted to two institutes, one at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Adelheid Otto) and one at the Freie Universität Berlin (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Elisa Roßberger).
Within the specified project duration of 16 years, the interdisciplinary team of researchers in Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, Digital Humanities, and IT will study and establish a representative digital corpus of ca. 80,000 seals and generate a well-structured annotated dataset of the seals’ pictorial and textual components.
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FARA - Iraq
Fieldwork in Fāra / Šuruppak
After in-depth surveys from 2016-2018 and magnetometer prospections in 20218 and 2022 (Team Faßbinder), first excavations were conducted in 2022 and 2024. The project is directed by Prof. Dr. Adelheid Otto (LMU München), in cooperation with Prof. Abbas al-Hussainy (University Al-Qadissiyah).
The Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology forms part of the faculty 12 of Cultural Sciences and the Department for Cultural Sciences and Ancient Studies.
In addition to the BA programmes of "Archaeology" and "Ancient Near East", teaching also comprises the new master programme of "Near Eastern Archaeology". Another focus of our Institute is on research.
Apart from field research, projects like HIGEOMES on the historical geography of Upper Mesopotamia and METROLOGIA, a French-German cooperation on the use, function and prevalence of different weight- and measure of capacity systems in the Ancient Near East in their socio-economic and historical context, are based at our institute.
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The subject Near Eastern Archaeology is represented in the BA programmes "Archaeology: Europe and the Near East" and "Ancient Near East" (principal subject with 180 and 120 ECTS points respectively) as well as in the course "Ancient and Oriental Studies" (subsidiary subject).
Since the winter term of 2012/13, students have been able to continue their studies with the Master Programme "Near Eastern Archaeology".
Please register for lectures and exams via LSF.
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Within the framework of the colloquium on the Ancient Near East, there are weekly lectures on Tuesday evenings. Everybody is welcome and especially students are encouraged to attend.
The event takes place online on Tuesdays from 6-8 pm c.t., in presence,
in room no. A119
in the main building of LMU Munich
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
The first lectue during the current term will be held on 29th April 2025, the last one on 22nd July 2025.
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