2022 – 11 - The Ancient Near East Today

November 2022

Vol. 10, No. 11

“Three Women and a match” Oil painting by the late Iraqi artist and art critic Wasmaa Alagha (1954-2015). Photograph by AlSafir Alaraby

The Unlikely Merchants: Women Antiquities Dealers in 19th Century Baghdad

November 17, 2022

Tourists crowd around the retaining wall surrounding the pit containing the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings, during the period in late February 1923 when the tomb was first opened for public viewing. From the magazine article "At the Tomb of Tutankhamen" by Maynard Owen Williams in the May 1923 issue of National Geographic. Public Domain.

Decoding Tutankhamun: Understanding the Tomb and its Treasures

November 8, 2022

Full results of academic family trees, showing those with four or more scholars. Those with fewer than four people in their trees are collected at the bottom of the image

Who Are You? Preliminary Results of the Academic Genealogies of Near Eastern Scholars (AGNES) Project

November 8, 2022

Group photograph, ca. 1906. First row: F. Wetzel, R. Koldewey, O. Reuther, G. Buddensieg. From J. Marzahn 2008 « Robert Koldewey – Ein Lebensbild » in R.-B- Wartke, Auf dem Weg nach Babylon, p. 18, Fig. 8 (Vorderasiatisches Museum).

Modern Wars and Ancient Governance: Archaeology and Textual Finds from First Millennium BCE Babylon

November 3, 2022

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