Activities conducted during the 2020/2021 academic year

* On April 7-8, 2021, a RIAB Minerva Center online workshop was held. The workshop dealt with "Egyptiaca Outside of Egypt." The meeting, which was initiated and organized by RIAB Center junior member Laura Gonnermann, focussed on Egyptian and Egyptianizing artifacts, architecture, and literature found throughout the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, in order to gain a transregional perspective on the phenomenon of Egyptiaca.

* On April 22, 2021, the RIAB Minerva Center, the Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, at Bar-Ilan University, hosted a meeting whose title was: "Cult and Interaction in the Early and Intermediate Bronze Ages."

* A RIAB Center workshop was held 13 September 2021 that dealt with "New Studies on Iron Age Syria and Nearby Regions: Regional and Cross-Regional Perspectives." The online workshop was initiated and organized by center members Assaf Klieman and Juliane Stein.