The Allure of the Ancient Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, Ca. 1600-1800

Margaret Geoga, Ph.D. (2020, Brown University), is an Egyptologist specializing in ancient Egyptian literature and the reception history of ancient Egypt. She has published on the transmission and reception of Egyptian poetry, as well as ancient Egyptian religion.

John Steele, Ph.D. (1998, Durham University), is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at Brown University. He has published extensively on the history of astronomy, with a particular focus on Babylonian astronomy and its later reception.