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
A Half a Century of Studying Biblical Coins
Why revise a book on coins for fifty years and six editions? For one thing there are more data than ever. For another, old questions with big implications keep sticking around, lik
Why Did the World End in 1200 BCE?
The year 1200 BCE has iconic status in histories of the ancient world. But did an English polymath and a German historian who liked round numbers foist this on the world?
My Meeting with Mellaart or, Dutch Cigars and the Case of the Missing Wall Paintings
April 2021 | Vol. 9.4 By Alex Joffe As a young and arrogant graduate student in the 1980s I had a way of barging in unannounced on famous archaeologists. So it was in 1987 or so th