World History Matters
My latest publication is as a contributor to World History Matters: A Student Guide to World History Online, a nicely illustrated and well organized guide to scholarly internet sites. Yes, you can cite these in your papers!
Public Humanist
I have two new posts up at The Public Humanist. The first is on the traveling British Museum exhibition of Assyrian art, Art and Empire. The second is on the announcement of the Iraq Heritage Project. Please comment on both or either. I’m very curious to know what others think about these topics.
Book Review: Babylon’s Ark
Babylon’s Ark by Lawrence Anthony is a memoir of a conservationist’s trip to Baghdad soon after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to save the animals at the Baghdad Zoo. After reading a number of books on the topic, mostly on the archaeological looting, but also the excellent Imperial Life in the Emerald City, as…
Review of Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context
Aren Maeir has published a review of Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context in the Review of Biblical Literature. As is often the case in reviewing essay collections, much of the article summarizes the contents of the book but Maeir is generally positive. This is the final paragraph: All told, the varied, provocative, and generally…
Hollis
Because I’m a dork, I looked up our book in Hollis, Harvard’s online library catalog, and was pleased to find that the University bought three copies! One for the Divinity School library, one for Widener (the main, big general library) and one for the Fine Arts library. In case you’re wondering, only the Div School…
Boston Globe piece
Five years ago this week, I had a small piece about the looting of the Baghdad Museum published in the Ideas section of the Boston Globe.
Introduction from ANE Art in Context, aka Irene Winter Festschrift
I’m excerpting below the introduction that Marian Feldman and I wrote for Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter. I’d meant to do this earlier to help Googlers find articles that are in the book, but it makes sense to do it now, too, because we will be having…
It’s here! For order
Ancient Near Eastern Art in Context: Studies in Honor of Irene J. Winter edited by Jack Cheng and Marian H. Feldman, published by Brill, 2007. More details as we get closer to the actual physical book.
Archaeological Blog review
The Newsletter of the Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology has just published my review of the Gath Project Blog in the Spring 2006 issue. Blogging has come to the trenches! The Gath blog is worth checking out because it is both archaeologically sound (i.e. lots of good information about digging for students) and fun…
A Real Live Archaeologist
This Wednesday I was the guest speaker at Joey Schotland’s World History class. Joey teaches at Another Course to College, a charter school in Brighton. In fact, it’s located at 20 Warren Street, about 150 yards from the house where I lived with Kelly and Gavin (104 Warren) and across the street from St Elizabeth’s…
Jack Cheng, PhD 