Event
The Discovery of Urkesh and the Dawn of a Civilization
Giorgio Buccellati, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Department of History, UCLA; Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Professor, Art History, California State University, Los Angeles
Sponsored by
Hagop Kevorkian Visiting Lectureship Fund
Come here professors Buccellati and Kelly-Buccellati speak about how they selected the site of Tell Mozan, located in northeastern Syria. They identify the site as Urkesh--an important third millenium B.C. capital city, prominent in the mythology of the little-known Hurrian peoples. Because of the site's historical and stylistic pecularities, the lecturers argue that the excavations have revealed the dawn of a "new civilization," one distinctive within Syro-Mesopotamia. Event is free and open to the public. Reception follows.