Ten Fascinating Discoveries in Near Eastern and Mediterranean Archaeology in 2024
Legend says that the Colossus of Rhodes fell to ruins not long after its construction. Ancient texts and geological evidence suggest a more complex history.
Ten Exciting Discoveries in Near Eastern Archaeology in 2023
December 2023 | Vol. 11.12 By Jessica Nitschke In 2023 archaeologists and researchers continued to push the limits of the discipline and provide new insights into the ancient world
Archaeological Laborers of 20th-Century Palestine
June 2023 | Vol. 11.6 By Melissa Cradic Who were the workers who carried out excavation of archaeological sites in the “big dig” era of the early 20th century in Palestine? Und
Absences, Archaeology, and the Early History of Monotheistic Religions in the Near East
February 2023 | Vol. 11.2 By Robin Derricourt In my writing I use archaeology and history together to understand phenomena of the deep past. I have authored survey volumes on inter
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
What’s in a Name? Warriors and Warrior Burials in the Near East
MAY 2022 | Vol. 10.5 By Chris Stantis The dead, much like the living, don’t fit easily into convenient labels. In the 1980s, the term “warrior graves” was coined to describe
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