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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

Nahal Omer textile collection: a. Supplementary weft cotton; b. Ikat cotton; b. Wool fragment; d. Green cotton with Ikat patch e. wool and cotton; f. Supplementary weft cotton; g. silk.

Archaeological Method

From Trash to Treasure: Nahal Omer and the Virtual Silk Road

September 17, 2026

Featured Articles

Silver goblet from ˁAin Samiya near Ramallah. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (inv. no. K2919), Staff Officer for Archaeology, Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria. Photo: October 27, 2025 (© Eberhard Zangger, Luwian Studies #5082).

Art

Lifting the Sky: The Cosmic Program on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet

November 13, 2025

Complete animal skeleton and ivories in the western half of the northern room of the Treasury, looking east. Image courtesy of Eric H. Cline.

History of the Field

“Terminate and Liquidate”: How the Megiddo Ivories were Almost Not Discovered

April 14, 2020

Bronze Age

The Fall of the Bronze Age and the Destruction that Wasn’t

December 20, 2022

Beit She’an in Israel where Byzantine Christianity flourished after the Islamic conquest (Photo by Author).

History of the Field

Absences, Archaeology, and the Early History of Monotheistic Religions in the Near East

February 9, 2023

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