2023 – 02 - The Ancient Near East Today

February 2023

Vol. 11, No. 2

Bellerophon wearing the “Phrygian cap” (indicating his Anatolian affiliation) attacking Chimera while riding Pegasus. Red-figure plate, c. 350-300 BCE, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. (Photo: C. Raddat z; CC By-SA 2.0)

What Can Mythological Narratives tell us about Mycenaean Long-Distance Trade in the Bronze Age?

February 23, 2023

Lion Gate, Hattusa, early 14th century BCE. (KapuskaCoFabli / Wikimedia Commons)

Tree Rings, Drought, and the Collapse of the Hittite Empire

February 23, 2023

Obverse (l) and reverse (r) of a geometric word-problem text (IM 121613. Image courtesy CDLI)

Cuneiform Mathematics: Outstanding Techniques in a System of Texts

February 16, 2023

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

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

February 9, 2023

Gebel Musa, the “Mount Sinai” of later traditions

The Earliest Mention of the Placename Sinai: The Journeys of Khety

February 2, 2023

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