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Michigan State University

New Ways of Seeing the Past: Machine Learning, X-ray Fluorescence, and the Coins of Rome and Ancient Judea with Yanniv David Levy

WHERE:
MSU Libraries

WHEN:
March 23, 2026

WHAT:
Talks, Panels, and Presentations

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ABOUT

Yanniv David Levy is a researcher and curator in the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), with a specialty in experimental technologies and numismatics. In addition to managing the Mediterranean’s largest collection of ancient coins with archaeological provenance, Yanniv has worked extensively with computer scientists on machine learning applications for the study of Roman and Hellenistic coins. He also works in the field with IAA excavations such as the recent Old City dig at the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden – Davidson Center, which uncovered a rare coin minted by Jewish rebels in the months before the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE.

Co-sponsors: Oakland University’s Cis Maisel Center for Judaic Studies and Community Engagement, American Institute of Archaeology, College of Arts and Letters, James Madison College, College of Social Science, Residential College of Arts and Humanities, International Studies and Programs, the Department of History, and MSU Libraries

Space is limited. To reserve a seat please register here: https://bookings.lib.msu.edu/event/15976643