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Recent Articles

Courtyard of “Le Petit Palais”, constructed 1831-1832. Photo by Helen Dixon.

Art

Treasures in Tunis: An Archaeologist’s Guide to the Bardo National Museum

November 3, 2026

Map of Cyprus from 1873-1874 CE, while under Ottoman control. Public Domain via Wikimedia.

History

Cyprus Through Syrian Eyes: Reflections on Hanna Diyab’s 1707 Travels

October 22, 2026

Close-up of a seal impression on a mudstopper from Saqqara tomb S3503 with serekhs (rectangular symbols that were used to frame an Egyptian king’s name in the Early Dynastic period). Courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society; used with permission from the author.

Digital Archaeology

Did Meretneith Rule Egypt as a Female King in the First Dynasty?

October 1, 2026

Featured Articles

Figure 3. Detail of Chapter 125 of the 19th Dynasty Book of the Dead of Hunefer (British Museum EA 9901,3) showing the mummiform Osiris enthroned under a kiosk. Photo by the Author.

Egypt

The Egyptian Conceptualization of the Otherworld

August 31, 2023

Photograph of Equus africanus (Photo 79784, (c) Valerie, some rights reserved [CC BY-NC-ND]) https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/79784

Animals

Donkeys, Domestication and Early Bronze Age Society

May 14, 2020

Jebel Aqra (north of Ugarit) where it meets the Mediterranean Sea at Samra beach, on the border between Syria and Türkiye. Photo by Kevorkmail via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Funerary Practices

“Lift the mountain on your hands,” or How to Cross a Netherworld Border

February 6, 2025

Gate of the Khirbet en-Nahas fortress looking to the east. In the background, the north-eastern wall. © J.M. Tebes

Arabian Peninsula

A Desert Revolution – Transformations in Northwestern Arabia and the Arid Southern Levant in the Late 2nd Millennium BCE

October 15, 2020

The sacking of Troy as presented in The Odyssey. (Promotional image by Melinda Sue Gordon, © Universal Pictures).

Aegean

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, A View from the East

August 6, 2026