2022 – 01 - The Ancient Near East Today

January 2022

Vol. 10, No. 1

Illustration of Skilla from 13th century Arabic copy of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica. Public Domain

The Medico-Magical Squill

January 20, 2022

Atanasius Kircher, Topographia Paradisi Terrestris (ca. 1675; Public Domain). The term paradise is derived from Old Persian term pairi-daêzã.

Visions from the Middle Territory: The Books of Haggai and Zechariah in their Persian Context

January 18, 2022

The typical vertical preservation of ancient wood-planked hulls in the Mediterranean Sea is seen in the Tantura B shipwreck, Israel, with only the lower parts of the structure surviving because of its burial in sediment soon after deposition. Early ninth-century AD. Photo: S. Wachsmann.

On the Potential of Deep-Submergence Archaeology

January 5, 2022

Clay cone inscription in Akkadian by ‘Kudur-Mabuk, father of the Emutbal land, son of Šimti-šilhak”, ca. 1825 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris (AO 6445 = RIME 4: 267–268, text no. 2) © 2007 RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux

The Exceptional Career of a Mesopotamian Ruler without a Crown: Kudur-Mabuk and the Kingship of Larsa

January 1, 2022

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