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
Fish Sauces – The Food that Made Rome Great
January 2021 | Vol. 9.1 By Benedict Lowe Recent research has done much to stress the importance of fish in the ancient Roman diet. But there were many ways to consume fish. The mos