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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

Bible

Making Bibles in Early America

January 17, 2019

Dog harnessed, with a loop on the device to restrain it, on mosaic from Shechem (Neapolis) on display in the Israel Museum (photographer unknown, courtesy of the Israel Museum).

Animals

Pictures of Restraint: Hunting Carnivores on Mosaics from the Roman and Byzantine Periods

June 16, 2020

Fig. 7: Artist reconstructions of the monumentality of various migdal temples. 1. Hazor Building 7050, 2. Hazor Orthostat building, 3. Shechem migdal temple.

Architecture

What is a ‘House of a God’?

July 2, 2020

Odysseus asks the bard Demodocus to sing of the wooden horse through which Troy was taken. As the bard recounts the destruction of the city, Odysseus quietly weeps–observed only by King Alcinous (Homer, Odyssey 8.487–535, produced with OpenAI image-generation tools based on prompts prepared by the author, edited by Atelier Guido Köhler & Co., Luwian Studies #6415).

Aegean

Why Odysseus Had to Go to Scheria —Memories, Flashbacks, and the End of the Bronze Age

July 9, 2026

Faida, Relief No. 4, 8th-7th cent. BC (Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project archive).

Assyria

Divine Channels: Rediscovering the Canal Networks of the Assyrian Empire

October 4, 2021