Built Environment – The Ancient Near East Today

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 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

Figure 2: Collapsed prehistoric structures along the shoulders of Mesa 7 on Wadi al-Qattafi. Photo by A. C. Hill.

October 12, 2023

By ANE Today

Neolithic Social Life

Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Life in the Black Desert

October 2023 | Vol. 11.10 By Yorke M. Rowan The forbidding landscape known as the Black Desert is created by lava flows stretching from southern Syria to northern Saudi Arabia that

Figure 9: Orthophoto of the Roman temple in Area A at the end of 2022 season (Photo: T. Rogovski)

September 21, 2023

By ANE Today

Levant Religion Roman Period Social Life

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

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