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
(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
Cultural Heritage and Human Rights in Ukraine
The Russian war against Ukraine has been a human calamity. The losses are measured first in human lives but also in the destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
Photographing Iraq
Mesopotamia is a difficult place to make a mark. But for one Iraqi neurologist, a passion for archaeological photography has opened Mesopotamia to the world.
Are Monuments History? (Neo-) Hittite Meditations on Two Memes
Many societies express power by building monuments to commemorate people or events. Tearing down monuments are also expressions of power, but of a different sort.
The Dolmen Tour and House of Heritage in Menjez (Akkar – North Lebanon)
Megaliths like dolmens are common around the world, including in northern Lebanon. A recent project worked with the local community to study, conserve and develop dolmens as a tour