2023 – 12 - The Ancient Near East Today

December 2023

Vol. 11, No. 12

Archaeologists remove Roman swords from a cave near ‘En Gedi. Photo: Emil Aladjem, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

Ten Exciting Discoveries in Near Eastern Archaeology in 2023

December 28, 2023

Figure 3. Nude standing female figurine with piercings to joint separately modeled arms. Babylon (Iraq), terracotta, c. 2nd century BCE–1st century CE. Height: 23cm. BM 81-7-1-3368 = 121212. Photo: © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

A Girl’s Helping Hand on the Journey to the Afterlife: Alabaster Ishtar-Aphrodite Figurines from Seleucid-Parthian Babylonia

December 21, 2023

Fig. 12: Complex of four Fatimid-period grain bins in Caesarea. Photo by Zaraza Friedmann.

The Wheat From the Chaff: What We Can Learn From Studying Plants in Antiquity

December 7, 2023

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