Death Wishes in the Hebrew Bible
December 2022 | Vol. 10.12 By Hanne Løland Levinson Many of us in the depths of despair have wished for death. What about figures in the Hebrew Bible? “Enough! Now, YHWH, take m
Mesopotamia Murder Mystery
December 2022 | Vol. 10.12 By Virginia Verardi Note: This report includes data derived from and images of human remains. Archaeology recovers processes in the past, like the evolut
Reforming (and Decolonising) Excavation and Survey in Iraq
December 2022 | Vol. 10.12 By Jaafar Jotheri Archaeology in Iraq has always been bound up with its external and internal politics. Iraq’s heritage law was written in 1936, four y
The Unlikely Merchants: Women Antiquities Dealers in 19th Century Baghdad
November 2022 | Vol. 10.11 By Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem In mid-January 1896, a searing letter written by the Iraqi antiquities dealer Jemilah Hanna Benny began to slowly make its way f
Decoding Tutankhamun: Understanding the Tomb and its Treasures
November 2022 | Vol. 10.11 By Peter Lacovara As the world celebrates the centennial of Howard Carter’s discovery in the Valley of the Kings, one often repeated observation is, in
Who Are You? Preliminary Results of the Academic Genealogies of Near Eastern Scholars (AGNES) Project
november 2022 | Vol. 10.11 By Rachel Hallote, Diane Harris Cline, and Eric H. Cline Where do archaeologists and other scholars of the ancient Near East come from? Who were the inte
Modern Wars and Ancient Governance: Archaeology and Textual Finds from First Millennium BCE Babylon
November 2022 | Vol. 10.11 By Odette Boivin When the German architect-turned-archaeologist Robert Koldewey and his colleagues unearthed cuneiform tablets from the ruins of Babylon
The History of Isaiah and the Age of Empires
October 2022 | Vol. 10.8 By Jacob Stromberg The prophet Isaiah stood at the beginning of an age of empires in the ancient Near East. In order, the age saw the rise of the neo-Assyr
Prismatic Gilgamesh
October 2022 | Vol. 10.10 By Sophus Helle It is 150 years ago since George Smith, a self-taught Assyriologist working at the British Museum, first translated a line from the Epic
The Cuneiform Wide Web: From Card Catalogues to Digital Assyriology
october 2022 | Vol. 10.10 By Shai Gordin and Avital Romach Can computers read cuneiform better than experts? The answer, at the moment, is no. But will computers read cuneiform bet