What is the Future of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra?
September 2024 | Vol. 12.9 By Maamoun Abdulkarim and Jacques Seigne During the summer of 2015, ISIS terrorists detonated explosives within the Sanctuary of Bel, completely destroyi
Digitizing Cultural Heritage: Challenges, Opportunities and Best Practices
MAY 2024 | Vol. 12.5 By Peter Herdrich All around the world, cultural heritage is under threat: from conflict to climate change to urban expansion, the challenges facing heritage s
(Re)visiting the Past in the Present: The Power of Place and the Malleability of Monuments
MAY 2024 | Vol. 12.5 By Matthew D. Howland, Morag M. Kersel, James F. Osborne, and Yorke M. Rowan In her formative work The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (1995
Archaeology of the Silk Road: What Lies Ahead?
November 2023 | Vol. 11.11 By Kate Franklin The idea of the Silk Road seems to be everywhere: bestselling books, museum exhibits, conferences, tours, travelogues, and geopolitical
Local Communities and Archaeological Sites: A Case Study at Dougga in Tunisia
August 2023 | Vol. 11.8 By John Whitehouse and Sami Harize The site of Dougga (ancient Thugga), located approximately 110 km southwest of Tunis, has been occupied since the 6th ce
Digitizing Manuscripts from Southwest Asia: Access, Ethics, and Sustainability
July 2023 | Vol. 11.7 By Raha Rafii The expansion of digital humanities in the last decade has led to a widespread increase in manuscript digitization projects by libraries, univer
The Ishtar Gate of Babylon: One Monument, Multiple Narratives
april 2023 | Vol. 11.4 By Helen Gries The lavishly decorated Ishtar Gate was one of the city gates of ancient Babylon in present-day Iraq, built by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezz
A Virtual Visit to Tel Dan
january 2023 | Vol. 11.1 By Matti Friedman Anyone who’d like to visit the archaeological site of Tel Dan without actually traveling to northern Israel—and who wants to be shown
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