Ward lectures on research in Mersa Gawasis

Cheryl Ward delivered two off-site lectures last month focused on her continuing research at Mersa Gawasis in Egypt.

She spoke on “Building Pharaoh’s Ship: Experimental Archaeology in the Red Sea” at the Martha Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology at Brown University on Feb. 7.

Ward also delivered a seminar at Yale University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations on Feb. 18: "Going to the Great Green: Ancient Egyptian Seafaring on the Red Sea."

Ward is director of the Center for Archaeology and Anthropology.