The Ancient Near East at the MET: An Art History Lecture with Mike Norris, Ph.D.
This year's Summer Reading theme is "Unearth a Story" - discover the stories of ancient civilizations and creatures through reading this summer!
Through works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explore 7,500 years of the cultural history of peoples scattered over three million square miles of the Middle East, from present-day Turkey to India, and from Armenia to Saudi Arabia. The core civilization was in Mesopotamia, the fertile land between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers of modern-day Iraq. From this land came stories of Noah's Great Flood, the unconquerable hero Gilgamesh, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, as well as the modern discovery of the Great Death Pit of Ur, filled with 74 bodies and priceless artifacts.
About the presenter: Mike got his BA in classics from the University of California at San Diego and his MA in classics and Ph.D. in art history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He spent twenty years at the Cloisters Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and has lectured on trips all over the world. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.
For details and to register, visit the library website: https://mtpl.libcal.com/event/16842730
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