Portraits of People and Society From Palmyra
june 2022 | Vol. 10.6 By Maura Heyn The funerary portraiture from the city of Palmyra, in the eastern Roman Empire, is a rich and heterogenous display of identity dating to the fir
Rapid Change of Climate Did Not Cause the Fall of the Akkadian Empire
june 2022 | Vol. 10.6 By Arkadiusz Sołtysiak A recent issue of Antiquity published a paper presenting results of biochemical analyses of human bones from a few sites situated in
Everyday Life in Exile: Judean Deportees in Babylonian Texts
June 2022 | Vol. 10.6 By Tero Alstola When King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon conquered the kingdom of Judah in the early sixth century BCE, part of Judean population was deported t
A New Money Economy at the Dawn of the Iron Age
June 2022 | Vol. 10.6 By Elon Heymans Money attracts not only people, but also stories. For example, among his many digressions, the Greek historian Herodotus recounts the story of
Goddesses of Myth and Cultural Memory
may 2022 | Vol. 10.5 By Emilie Kutash Goddesses, it seems, are still among us today. The contemporary goddess movement reflects a quest for an antidote to male divinity and a means
The Bible in Arabic
may 2022 | Vol. 10.5 By Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala The earliest references to Arabic translations of the Bible date back to the pre-Islamic period, although at the present time we h
(Hi)stories Set in Plaster: Ancient Western Asian Reproductions and the Berlin State Museums
MAY 2022 | Vol. 10.5 By Pınar Durgun The past and present of plaster copies Just before the reveal of “Göbeklitepe-like” Neolithic sites in Karahantepe and Sayburç/Turkey
What’s in a Name? Warriors and Warrior Burials in the Near East
MAY 2022 | Vol. 10.5 By Chris Stantis The dead, much like the living, don’t fit easily into convenient labels. In the 1980s, the term “warrior graves” was coined to describe
Scarabs in Pre-Roman Italy
april 2022 | Vol. 10.4 By Enrico Giovanelli Scarabs are quintessential Egyptian objects. Made from a variety of materials, scarabs depict the dung beetle with folded wings and are
The Social Context of Writing in Ancient Ugarit
April 2022 | Vol. 10.4 By Philip Boyes We often ask, what is writing? A better question is, who is writing? It is very easy to approach ancient writing as something rather abstract