New Discoveries in the Pan Grotto in Paneas
Once believed to be the location of Herod’s Augusteum, the cave at Paneas has yielded up some surprising discoveries following recent excavations.
The Land at the End of the Empire: The Roman Eastern Border in Mesopotamia
October 2024 | Vol. 12.10 By Rocco Palermo On a cliff overlooking the Tigris River, circa 90 kms North of Mosul in what is now northern Iraq, lies a small cemetery, locally known (
A Minor Biblical Prophet Lives Again—Among the Dead
March 2024 | Vol. 12.3 By Amy Erickson In the catacombs beneath the city of Rome, where the dead were interred, honored, and visited, Jonah is strikingly alive. On the walls, the c
Jewish Experiences in the Roman Bathhouses of Judaea/Syria Palaestina
February 2024 | Vol. 12.2 By Yaron Z. Eliav A Typical Roman Public Bathhouse. Drawn by Yannis Nakas for the Author. In the first few centuries of the common era, hundreds of thousa
Moses in Josephus’ Antiquities: Between Jewish and Greek Traditions
November 2023 | Vol. 11.11 By Ursula Westwood In the Greek and Latin literature of the Roman Empire, Moses occasionally turns up as a wise but sacrilegious Egyptian priest (Strabo)
Horvat Midras (Israel): A Window into Socio-Religious Change in Rural Roman Palestine
September 2023 | Vol. 11.9 By Orit Peleg-Barkat and Gregg E. Gardner The ongoing excavation of Horvat Midras/Khirbet Durusiya (Israel) provides an opportunity to study changes in t
Baths of the Roman and Byzantine Southern Levant: Roman Ideas and Local Interpretations
June 2023 | Vol. 11.6 By Arleta Kowalewska and Craig A. Harvey Bathhouses are one of the most iconic remains associated with the Roman world, easily recognized by their distinctive
Dig Deeper: Revisiting the Excavations of a Glass Workshop at Jalame el-Asafna
May 2023 | Vol. 11.5 By Katherine A. Larson “How was glass made in antiquity?” This is the question that drove a team from The Corning Museum of Glass and the Universit
A Sea of Law: The Romans and Their Maritime World
May 2023 | Vol. 11.5 By Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz The sea was key for Rome’s success; it served as the setting of several battles that granted them hegemony over the Mediterranean
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