MONMOUTH, Ill. — Suna Cagaptay-Arikan will deliver the next archaeology lecture at Monmouth College on April 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the lower level classrooms of the Huff Athletic Center.

Cagaptay-Arikan, a Ph.D. candidate in architecture at the University of Illinois, will speak on “Sharers of the Same Shade: Byzantines and Ottomans in Early 14th-Century Bursa (Bithynia).” He has been involved in an archaeological study of the re-use of Byzantine buildings for Ottoman and Islamic purposes to demonstrate a constant cultural, architectural and social overlap in early 14th-century Bithynia.

Sponsored by the Western Illinois Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the MC Classics department, the series is free and open to the public.