Architecture - The Ancient Near East Today

Ziggurat and decayed mudbricks from Kar Tikulti-Ninurta, Iraq. Photo by M. Lorenzon.

Since the Neolithic, mudbrick architecture has been one of the most widespread building traditions across the world. But a mudbrick is more than a structural unit: it is also a re

View of the Old City of Jerusalem, looking northeast: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is on the left (the grey dome); the tower in the middle is the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer; the Dome of the Rock is visible on the right (the gold dome). Photo by Jodi Magness.

August 22, 2024

By ANE Today Editor

Jerusalem and Charlemagne

August 2024 | Vol. 12.8 By Jodi Magness On Christmas day, 800 CE, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. At the ceremony, which took place in Rome, the

The rotunda and aedicule in the present day Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Image courtesy of the author.

March 25, 2021

By ANE Today Editor

Architecture Christianity Funerary Practices Religion

Commemorating Jesus: Constantine’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre

March 2021 | Vol. 9.3 By Jordan J. Ryan Since antiquity, Christians have travelled to the region that they call the “Holy Land” in order to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and

November 3, 2020

By ANE Today Editor

Daily Life Digital Archaeology Roman Period

The Sound and the Fury: The Passion for Chariot Racing in Imperial Rome

The Circus Maximus in Rome could have held as many as 250,000 spectators. The attraction of an edge-of-your-seat, high-speed spectacle is familiar, but the experience was much more