Breaking the Code: Ancient Iran’s Linear Elamite Script Deciphered
september 2022 | Vol. 10.9 By François Desset, Kambiz Tabibzadeh, Matthieu Kervran, Gian Pietro Basello, and Gianni Marchesi Research in the humanities achieves definitive results
What is Karaism and Are There Still Karaites?
august 2024 | Vol. 12.8 By Daniel J. Lasker Anyone familiar with a typical synagogue would be surprised by this photograph. Men are wearing skullcaps and prayer shawls. The ark is
The ‘Biblical Origins’ of the Etruscans in the 16th Century CE and Their Impact on European Politics
august 2022 | Vol. 10.8 By Maurizio Harari In 1536-37, Guillaume Postel – in his time the top French expert on Near Eastern languages – went as an interpreter to Holy Land and
The Neo-Assyrian Empire and Egypt
August 2022 | Vol. 10.8 By Mattias Karlsson The Neo-Assyrian empire, with its center along the river Tigris in northern Mesopotamia, controlled large parts of the ancient Near East
Ancient Egyptian Food Prohibitions
August 2022 | Vol. 10.8 By Youri Volokhine The topic of food prohibitions in ancient Egypt may be viewed from two perspectives, the Egyptian theological view about licit or illicit
Decision Making and Leadership in Egyptian Warfare
july 2022 | Vol. 10.7 By Anthony Spalinger Anyone studying foreign relations faces clear-cut obstacles, the sharpest being the antithesis between routine conduct and extraordinary
Ethnoarchaeology in Cyprus
july 2022 | Vol. 10.7 By Gloria London Not all archaeologists excavate dead and buried artifacts. Those of us who work among the living are called ethno-archaeologists. We observe
Monumental Sandstone Reliefs from the Neolithic: New Insights from the Camel Site in Saudi Arabia
july 2022 | Vol. 10.7 By Maria Guagnin, Guillaume Charloux, and Abdullah M. AlSharekh Today the austere deserts of Saudi Arabia evoke images of wandering nomads. But in late prehis
The Relationship Between “Jews” and “Israelites” After the Babylonian Exile
july 2022 | Vol. 10.7 By Jason Staples In his review of Karl Georg Kuhn’s Achtzehngebet und Vaterunser und der Reim, the Dutch Biblical scholar M.A. Beek fondly recalls
Who’s Afraid of the Goddess of Ancient Israel?
june 2022 | Vol. 10.6 By Dvora Lederman Daniely Archaeological and literary-biblical studies have long shown that the worship of a Mother-Goddess was an early integral part of the