The Ancient Near East Today https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Search The Ancient Near East Today Newsletters Founding of YouTube A Short History Founding of YouTube A Short History Founding of YouTube A Short History Founding of YouTube A Short History Articles VOL. 14 (2026) Did Meretneith Rule Egypt as a Female King in the First Dynasty? Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, A View from the East From the Southern Jordan Valley Plains to the Transjordanian Plateau: Current Archaeological Fieldwork in the Wadi Shuʿaib, Jordan Jewish Experiences in the Roman Bathhouses of Judaea/Syria Palaestina Cleopatra’s Languages The Care of the Elderly in Susa: A Study in the Akkadian Documents from the Sukkalmah Period Visualizing Food Storage in Ancient Houses From Trash to Treasure: Nahal Omer and the Virtual Silk Road From Sinner to Model Ancestor: King David in Post-Biblical Jewish and Christian Literature and Art Counterfeiting and Fake Dyes in the Clothing Industry from the Roman Period Translating Job as Befits a Great Ancient Work The Tree of Life Birth and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt Crosses and Crucifixions, Misunderstood and Misinterpreted – A Guide for/to the Perplexed Concepts and Metaphors in Sumerian Potters and Their Fingerprints Who Were the Sea Peoples? And Did They Bring About the End of the Bronze Age? The Ancient Near East after 1919 Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel Severed Spaces: Documenting Cultural Heritage at Risk in Iran In Search of Wes Anderson’s “Phoenicia” Assurbanipal’s iPad: Wax Boards in the Ancient Near East Were There Sumerians? Archaeology of the Silk Road: What Lies Ahead? A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia VOL. 7 (2019) Did the Phoenicians Bring Democracy to Greece? Byblos and the Making of an Ancient Maritime Hub The Meaning(s) of Achaemenid Silver Why Odysseus Had to Go to Scheria —Memories, Flashbacks, and the End of the Bronze Age Imagining the Ark of the Covenant, From Exodus to Indiana Jones Who Really Invented the Alphabet? The House of Aršāma, Persian Satrap in Egypt Moses–Yahweh’s Idol? Peace in Ancient Egypt Arabic Medieval Cookbooks in English Translation: Treasure Troves for Near Eastern Material Culture Life in a Late Antique Village Who Are the “Best-Connected” Members of the ASOR Community? Jesus in Non-Christian Sources Rock Art in Central Sahara: From Analogue to Digital What Sorts of Rituals Really Went on Inside Late Babylonian Temples?