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To tie in with the Museum's new exhibition Treasures of the Viking Age - The Galloway Hoard, we have a special treat for history lovers.

Among the extraordinary items discovered in the Galloway Hoard is a silver-lidded vessel with origins in ancient Iran/Central Asia. It contained 27 smaller objects itself and even had traces of silk attached to its outer surface.

Made during the period in which the Sasanian dynasty (224 - 651CE) controlled Iran and neighbouring territories, how might the vessel have become part of a tenth-century Viking silver hoard found in Scotland?

Join us as Associate Professor Peter Edwell, a historian of the Roman and Sasanian Persian Empires from Macquarie University, discusses this incredible object and the possible journey it made over three hundred years and thousands of kilometres.

About the speaker:

Peter Edwell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. He is Deputy Director (Research) of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies and a committee member of the Centre for Applied History. Peter completed a PhD in Ancient History in 2006 and has since published three monographs. His research and teaching focusses principally on the Roman eastern provinces in Late Antiquity and Rome's relationship with the Sasanian Persian Empire. Peter also researches aspects of Australian art history and his recent book, The Case that Stopped a Nation, was short-listed for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2022.

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